Madagascar 2016
Yearbook 2016 Madagascar. In January, the result of the election to the Senate held in December 2015 became clear. Two thirds of the 63 members are elected in indirect elections…
Yearbook 2016 Madagascar. In January, the result of the election to the Senate held in December 2015 became clear. Two thirds of the 63 members are elected in indirect elections…
Yearbook 2016 Luxembourg. The current population of Luxembourg is 625,989. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at a meeting with his French colleague Manuel Valls in April offered a grant with the…
Lithuania is a parliamentary democratic republic and is governed by a multi-party system, with the Prime Minister as the head of government. The Lithuanian Parliament, known as the Seimas, is…
Yearbook 2016 Liechtenstein. The current population of Liechtenstein is 38,139. According to thereligionfaqs, the British referendum on leaving the EU resulted in Liechtenstein becoming the subject of interest from Scotland,…
Yearbook 2016 Libya. Since an agreement on a new national unity government was signed during the mediation of the UN in 2015, a presidential council with its seat in Tunisia…
Yearbook 2016 Liberia. In January, politician and businessman Harry Greaves was found dead on a beach in the capital, Monrovia. Greaves had previously served as advisers to Presidents Gyude Bryant…
Yearbook 2016 Lesotho. The current population of Lesotho is 2,142,260. Lesotho celebrated on October 4 the 50th anniversary of its independence. The party mood was clouded a month later by…
Yearbook 2016 Lebanon. Little Lebanon continued to be characterized by conflicts in the region and by the interconnected power measurement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The current population of Lebanon…
Yearbook 2016 Latvia. The year began with a government crisis, after the Prime Minister resigned in December and the three coalition parties could not agree on a successor. President Raimonds…
Yearbook 2016 Laos. The current population of Laos is 7,275,571. Laos was chairman of the Southeast Asian cooperation organization ASEAN during the year. In September, ASEAN leaders also met leaders…
Yearbook 2016 Kyrgyzstan. The current population of Kyrgyzstan is 6,524,206. Reduced production of gold and silver put severe pressure on the country’s economy. In January, exports fell by about 40%…
Yearbook 2016 Kuwait. Falling oil prices caused a budget deficit to arise after 16 years of surplus. The deficit amounted to $ 15 billion in the fiscal year ending last…
Yearbook 2016 Kosovo. In February, Parliament appointed a new president after Atifete Jahjaga, whose term of office expired. After two votes when a two-thirds majority was demanded, Foreign Minister Hashim…
Yearbook 2016 Kiribati. The current population of Kiribati is 119,460. The parliamentary elections, the first round of which was held at the end of December 2015, were completed in January.…
Kenya is a unitary republic with a presidential system of government. It is governed as per the 2010 Constitution, which replaced the 1963 Constitution. The president is both Head of…
Yearbook 2016 Kazakhstan. The low oil prices pushed the country’s economy. Exports, dominated by oil and minerals, had fallen more than 40% in one year and the currency tenge had…
Yearbook 2016 Jordan. The war in Syria continued to cast its shadow over Jordan. King Abdullah said in February that Jordan was threatened with collapse. Approximately 1.4 million Syrian refugees…
Japan’s politics are dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power since 1955. The party is considered to be a conservative and nationalist one, and it…
Yearbook 2016 Jamaica. In January, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announced parliamentary elections for the following month. The current population of Jamaica is 2,961,178. The election, which attracted only 48% of…
Yearbook 2016 Ivory Coast. Domestic politics began the year with Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan submitting a resignation application to his government in January. The current population of Côte d’Ivoire…
Yearbook 2016 Italy. The current population of Italy is 60,461,837. Italy was thrown into a crisis at the end of the year in which the young, dynamic Prime Minister Matteo…
Yearbook 2016 Israel. During the year, a large number of people fell victim to the wave of violence between Palestinians and Israelis, which began in the fall of 2015. In…
Yearbook 2016 Ireland. The current population of Ireland is 4,937,797. Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s governing coalition Fine Gael and Labor did not receive a majority in the parliamentary elections on…
Yearbook 2016 Iraq. During the year, the Iraqi military pushed the Islamic State (IS) from much of the territory occupied by the terrorist sect in 2014 and 2015. At the…
Yearbook 2016 Iran. Most of the international sanctions against Iran were lifted in January after the UN nuclear agency IAEA confirmed that the country fulfilled its commitments under the agreement…
Yearbook 2016 Indonesia. The current population of Indonesia is 273,523,626. Indonesian President Joko Widodo appeared to have consolidated his grip on power during the year. Two opposition parties approached the…
India is a federal union of 29 states and 7 union territories. The country is governed by the Constitution of India, which is the supreme law of the land. India…
Yearbook 2016 Iceland. When the so-called Panama documents were leaked to international media in April, it was revealed that Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson had links to a mailbox…
The politics of Hungary takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The…
Yearbook 2016 Honduras. In April, the government launched a major raid on the country’s police force following serious allegations of corruption and illegality. Over 1,500 police officers were evaluated, and…
Yearbook 2016 Haiti. The year was marked by deep political disagreement and institutional uncertainty as well as a major natural disaster. In January, the second round of the presidential and…
Yearbook 2016 Guyana. At the end of October, the US oil company ExxonMobil announced that a large oil deposit had been made in the sea off the coast of Guyana.…
Yearbook 2016 Guinea Bissau. The current population of Guinea-Bissau is 1,968,012. According to thereligionfaqs, Guinea-Bissau underwent a prolonged political crisis during the year. In January, 15 MPs were expelled from…
Yearbook 2016 Guinea. In March, it was feared that the epidemic of ebola fever, which ravaged Guinea in 2014-15, would accelerate again. At least seven people in the southern parts…
Yearbook 2016 Guatemala. The current population of Guatemala is 17,915,579. President Jimmy Morales was increasingly hired during the year by corruption charges against parties in his government coalition FCN-Nación (National…
Yearbook 2016 Grenada. The current population of Grenada is 112,534. The referendum on changes in the country’s constitution that was announced until October was postponed. In a press release, the…
Yearbook 2016 Greenland. In January, Denmark and Greenland signed an agreement that opens for future exports of uranium from Greenland. Denmark, which previously opposed uranium mining, now gives Greenland the…
Yearbook 2016 Greece. The great refugee crisis in Europe was on its way at the beginning of the year; almost half a million people, according to the EU, moved to…
Yearbook 2016 Ghana. The year was marked by the presidential and parliamentary elections in December. In July, the Supreme Court ruled that the elections would be held as planned and…
Germany is a federal parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. The Federal Republic of Germany is made up of 16 federal states, each with its own constitution and state government.…