United Kingdom 2014
Yearbook 2014 UK. The winter weather in January put the community to the test. The amount of rainfall was reported to be the largest in 248 years and the floods are among the most...
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United Arab Emirates 2014
Yearbook 2014 United Arab Emirates. In Dubai, the year began with a world record that was recorded by Guinness’s record book when half a million rockets were fired in six minutes along a roughly...
Ukraine 2014
Ukraine is a large country located in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to...
Uganda 2014
Yearbook 2014 Uganda. Uganda population in 2020 is estimated at 45,741,018. The reactions were strong on the tightening of laws against homosexuality signed by President Yoweri Museveni at the beginning of the year. Several...
Tuvalu 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tuvalu. In January, the Tuvalu government sent a request to the Fiji government that retired Fijian elementary school teachers should be able to come to Tuvalu to teach there. Tuvalu population in...
Turkmenistan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan population in 2020 is estimated at 6,031,211. President Gurbanguli Berdimuchammedov dismissed the head of the state gas company in January, claiming that he had not done enough to broaden the...
Turkey 2014
Turkey is a transcontinental country located in both Europe and Asia. It has a population of 82 million people and its official language is Turkish. Turkey has a rich and varied history, with influences...
Tunisia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tunisia. In January, Parliament adopted a new constitution and the country also got a new transitional government consisting of technocrats and party-politically independent persons. Tunisia population in 2020 is estimated at 11,818,630....
Trinidad and Tobago 2014
Yearbook 2014 Trinidad and Tobago. In January, the country’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, described the increase in violent crimes that Trinidad and Tobago experienced as “totally unacceptable”. Among the large number of people killed...
Tonga 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tonga. Tonga population in 2020 is estimated at 105,706. Tonga was hit in January by tropical cyclone Ian, classified as Category 5 on the Saffir – Simpson scale, which means it reached...
Togo 2014
Yearbook 2014 Togo. Togo population in 2020 is estimated at 8,278,735. Tensions rose at the end of the year ahead of the presidential election, which is expected in April 2015. Several demonstrations that gathered...
Thailand 2014
Yearbook 2014 Thailand is a country located in Southeastern Asia. On May 22, the military took power in the country. The government was set aside and the constitution was repealed. A number of restrictions...
Tanzania 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tanzania. Tanzania population in 2020 is estimated at 59,734,229. President Jakaya Kikwete reformed the government in January after the death of the finance minister and four other ministers were dismissed just before...
Tajikistan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Tajikistan. The repression of freedom of opinion and opinion continued. Tajikistan population in 2020 is estimated at 9,537,656. The National Security Committee increased control over content in media and literature that was...
Taiwan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Taiwan. Taiwan population in 2020 is estimated at 23,816,786. Taiwan and China took an important step towards improving relations between the countries when the first government-level meeting since 1949 was held in...
Syria 2014
Yearbook 2014 Syria. The war in Syria went on in its fourth year without any signs of relief. In what was described as the world’s worst refugee disaster, 10 million people, almost half the...
Switzerland 2014
Yearbook 2014 Switzerland. Switzerland population in 2020 is estimated at 8,654,633. Two referendums on immigration were held during the year with conflicting results. In February, the issue concerned the reintroduction of quotas to prevent...
Sweden Automotive Industry
The automotive industry is an essential part of the engineering industry. By the middle of the 20th century, most types of transport equipment could be manufactured inland. The models were designed here, most components...
Suriname 2014
Yearbook 2014 Suriname.Suriname population in 2020 is estimated at 586,643. Dino Bouterse, President Desi Bouterses’s son, pleaded guilty to drug smuggling, illegal weapons possession and international terrorism at a New York court hearing in...
Sudan 2014
Yearbook 2014 Sudan. Sudan population in 2020 is estimated at 43,849,271. President Omar al-Bashir’s government struggled with economic problems, diplomatic isolation and ongoing conflicts in the country. In January, riots were reported due to...
Sri Lanka 2014
Yearbook 2014 Sri Lanka. The year was marked by religious contradictions and violence between mainly extremist Buddhists and Muslims. Sri Lanka population in 2020 is estimated at 21,413,260. The country was hit hard by...
Spain 2014
Spain is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is bordered by Portugal to the west, France and Andorra to the north, and Morocco to the south. Spain covers...
South Korea 2014
Yearbook 2014 South Korea. South Korea population in 2020 is estimated at 51,269,196. A ferry disaster that occurred in April became a national trauma that caused great anger against the government and the authorities....
South Africa 2014
Yearbook 2014 South Africa. At the beginning of the year, some 70,000 miners went on strike with demands for higher wages, and the work was paralyzed at the platinum mines, where more than one-sixth...
Somalia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Somalia. In January, in the autonomous Puntland, Parliament elected a new president. In the third round of voting, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali received one vote more than the incumbent President, Abdirahman Mohamed Farole....
Solomon Islands 2014
Yearbook 2014 Solomon Islands. Solomon Islands population in 2020 is estimated at 686,895. Former Prosecutor Frank Kabui was re-elected in May as Governor-General. In November, parliamentary elections were held when 32 of the 50...
Slovenia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Slovenia. At a party congress in the largest government party in Positive Slovenia in April, the leader, Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek, was dismissed from the party leader post. As a result, the...
Slovakia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Slovakia. Slovakia population in 2020 is estimated at 5,459,653. Prime Minister Robert Fico decided to stand in this year’s presidential election and first looked like a winner in public opinion. But he...
Singapore 2014
Yearbook 2014 Singapore. In January, one of Singapore Airlines’ super-jet planes, an Airbus A380 with 467 passengers aboard, was forced to land in Azerbaijan during a flight from London when the pressure in the...
Sierra Leone 2014
Sierra Leone State of Guinean West Africa; the portion of the land border, in the shape of a semicircle, which wraps it from NW to NE divides it from Guinea, while the south-eastern segment...
Seychelles 2014
Yearbook 2014 Seychelles. Seychelles population in 2020 is estimated at 98,358. The Seychelles, whose economy is largely dependent on fishing, received a patrol boat from China during the year. The vessel improves Seychelles’ ability...
Serbia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Serbia. Negotiations between the EU and Serbia on Serbian membership in the Union began formally in January. It was a symbolically important step towards integration in Europe, although it was expected to...
Senegal 2014
Yearbook 2014 Senegal. In January, the country’s fleet seized a Russian fishing vessel accused of illegal fishing in Senegal’s territorial waters. After the owner paid a fine of US $ 1.2 million, the ship...
Saudi Arabia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saudi Arabia. The increasingly serious security situation in the region left traces in both domestic and foreign policy. Concerns over Saudis taking part in the fighting in Syria were assumed to be...
Sao Tome and Principe 2014
Yearbook 2014 São Tomé and Principe. In January, the country’s health minister Leonel Pontes was fired by President Manuel Pinto da Costa. Sao Tome and Principe population in 2020 is estimated at 219,170. Pontes...
San Marino 2014
Yearbook 2014 San Marino. San Marino population in 2020 is estimated at 33,942. A former head of state and government, the doctor Pietro Berti, was sentenced in September to four years in prison for...
Samoa 2014
Yearbook 2014 Samoa. During the year, Samoa hosted a UN conference on the needs of small island nations, with around 3,000 delegates from close to 200 countries participating. Samoa population in 2020 is estimated...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In February, senior representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Saint Lucia met to discuss joint investments in the telecom sector. Saint Vincent and Grenadines...
Saint Lucia 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saint Lucia. In March, disaster status was announced due to water shortages in the northern part of the island. Despite rain during the following months, the situation did not improve. In July,...
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2014
Yearbook 2014 Saint Christopher and Nevis. In January, it was announced that Saint Christopher and Nevis had submitted an application for membership in ALBA, a partner organization for Latin American and Caribbean countries. The...