Glossary

Category: Social Indicators (Select letter)

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Map references
This entry includes the name of the Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
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Maritime claims
This entry includes the following claims contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone, exclusive fishing zone, extended fishing zone, none (usually for a landlocked country), other (unique maritime claims like Libya's Gulf of Sidra Closing Line or North Korea's Military Boundary Line), and territorial sea. The proximity of neighbouring states may prevent some national claims from being extended the full distance.
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Maternal mortality rate
In a given year, quotient between the number of maternal deaths (numerator) and the number of live births (denominator) in that same year, multiplied by 1,000. Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within the 42 days after termination of that pregnancy, regardless of the length and site of the pregnancy, due to complications of pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium (i.e., any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy itself or its care; ICD-9 codes 630-676 or ICD-10 codes O00-O99), but not due to accidental or incidental causes. The late maternal mortality is the mortality that is due to complications of pregnancy, delivery, and puerperium that occurred between 42 and 364 days after the termination of the pregnancy. (Unit of measure: By 100,000 live births)
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Merchant marine
Merchant marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all non-military ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; or a grouping of merchant ships by nationality or
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merchant ship
is a vessel that carries goods against payment of freight; it is commonly used to denote any non-military ship but accurately restricted to commercial vessels only.
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Metropolitan Coalescence
The merging of the urbanized areas of separate metropolitan regions; Megalopolis is an example of this process.
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Military
This category includes the entries dealing with a country's military structure, manpower, and expenditures.
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Military - note
This entry includes miscellaneous military information of significance not included elsewhere.
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Military branches
This entry lists the names of the ground, naval, air, marine, and other defence or security forces.
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Military expenditures - dollar figure
This entry gives current military expenditures in US dollars; the figure is calculated by multiplying the estimated defence spending in percentage terms by the gross domestic product (GDP) calculated on an exchange rate basis not purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. However, in the case of Russia, estimates of military expenditures have been made using PPP. Dollar figures for military expenditures should be treated with caution because of different price patterns and accounting methods among nations, as well as wide variations in the strength of their currencies.
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