Malaysia 2004
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Malawi 2004
Yearbook 2004 Malawi. The total population in Malawi is 19,129,963 people in 2020. Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in May. Observers from the EU […]
Madagascar 2004
Yearbook 2004 Madagascar. After political turmoil throughout 2002, Madagascar had strong economic growth in 2003 of almost 10%. However, this development was reversed when, in […]
Luxembourg 2004
Yearbook 2004 Luxembourg. The total population in Luxembourg is 625,989 people in 2020. The largest government party, the Christian Democratic CSV (Chrëschtlech-Sozial Vollekspartei), further strengthened […]
Lithuania 2004
Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus […]
Liechtenstein 2004
Yearbook 2004 Liechtenstein. In August, Prince Hans Adam handed over the daily government responsibility to his son Alois. The prince retained the post of head […]
Libya 2004
Yearbook 2004 Libya. During the year, Libya made a comeback on the international stage. In January, the country began dismantling its weapons of mass destruction […]
Liberia 2004
Yearbook 2004 Liberia. At a conference in New York in February, the UN, the World Bank and a number of industrialized countries pledged more than […]
Lesotho 2004
Yearbook 2004 Lesotho. The government announced a state of emergency in February and appealed for increased food assistance, after the drought entered the third year. […]
Lebanon 2004
Yearbook 2004 Lebanon. The total population in Lebanon is 6,825,456 people in 2020. The country’s political establishment was split during the fall by a political […]
Latvia 2004
Yearbook 2004 Latvia. The total population in Latvia is 1,886,209 people in 2020. The longstanding contradictions within the government coalition turned into an open crisis […]
Kyrgyzstan 2004
Yearbook 2004 Kyrgyzstan. The total population in Kyrgyzstan is 6,524,206 people in 2020. The UN Drugs and Crime Agency (UNODC) opened an office in Kyrgyzstan’s […]
Kuwait 2004
Yearbook 2004 Kuwait. In May, the government proposed a legislative amendment that would allow women to vote and stand for election to Parliament. Under current […]
Kosovo 2004
Yearbook 2004 Kosovo. The total population in Kosovo is 1.8 million people in 2020. Kosovo was shaken in March by the worst outbreak of violence […]
Kiribati 2004
Yearbook 2004 Kiribati. The total population in Kiribati is 119,460 people in 2020. The government’s decision in 2003 to recognize Taiwan and sever diplomatic relations […]
Kenya 2004
Kenya is a country in East Africa, located on the equator and bordered by Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, and Sudan. It has a […]
Kazakhstan 2004
Yearbook 2004 Kazakhstan. The total population in Kazakhstan is 18,776,718 people in 2020. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warned at the beginning of the […]
Jordan 2004
Yearbook 2004 Jordan. Authorities during the year conducted an intense hunt for people suspected of having links to the Islamist terror network al-Qaeda and to […]
Japan 2004
Japan is an East Asian country located off the eastern coast of the mainland. It is composed of over 6,800 islands, and its four main […]
Jamaica 2004
Yearbook 2004 Jamaica. Relations between Jamaica and Haiti were severely disrupted when Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was granted temporary asylum in Jamaica in March. The […]
Ivory Coast 2004
Yearbook 2004 Ivory Coast. In February, the UN Security Council approved a peacekeeping force of over 6,000 to be sent to the Ivory Coast, where […]
Italy 2004
Yearbook 2004 Italy. The total population in Italy is 60,461,837 people in 2020. The ruling four-party coalition in Italy was drawn during the year with […]
Israel 2004
Yearbook 2004 Israel. In February, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched a plan to close all Jewish settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip and also four […]
Ireland 2004
Yearbook 2004 Ireland. In March, Ireland was the first country in Europe to ban smoking in all workplaces. This meant that smoking was no longer […]
Indonesia 2004
Yearbook 2004 Indonesia. More than 200,000 people were feared to have died on December 26, when huge tidal waves hit the northern and western coasts […]
India 2004
India is a large, diverse country located in South Asia. It is the second most populous nation in the world and the seventh largest by […]
Iceland 2004
Yearbook 2004 Iceland. The total population in Iceland is 341,254 people in 2020. Iceland was thrown into a constitutional crisis in the spring, after President […]
Hungary 2004
Hungary is a landlocked country located in Central Europe. It is bordered by seven countries: Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Austria and Slovenia. The capital […]
Honduras 2004
Yearbook 2004 Honduras. As in other Central American countries, crime was high on the agenda during the year. Congress President Porfirio Lobo even proposed the […]
Haiti 2004
Yearbook 2004 Haiti. The total population in Haiti is 11,402,539 people in 2020. The multi-year political crisis in Haiti reached its climax at the beginning […]
Guyana 2004
Yearbook 2004 Guyana. The total population in Guyana is 786,563 people in 2020. On June 24, George Bacchus, the main witness, was assassinated in an […]
Guinea-Bissau 2004
Yearbook 2004 Guinea Bissau. In April, those involved in the coup against President Kumba Ialá received amnesty in 2003. However, it did not include people […]
Guinea 2004
Yearbook 2004 Guinea. At the beginning of the year, Prime Minister Lamine Sidimé was forced to leave. He was replaced by former Foreign Minister François […]
Guatemala 2004
Yearbook 2004 Guatemala. The total population in Guatemala is 17,915,579 people in 2020. A problem that the newly elected President Óscar Berger Perdomo had to […]
Grenada 2004
Yearbook 2004 Grenada. An emergency was introduced on September 7 after the country was devastated by Hurricane Ivan – the worst natural disaster that hit […]
Greenland 2004
Yearbook 2004 Greenland. The total population in Greenland is 56,781 people in 2020. In May, Greenland, Denmark and the United States signed an agreement that […]
Greece 2004
Yearbook 2004 Greece. The total population in Greece is 10,423,065 people in 2020. Kostas Karamanlis, leader of the ND Conservative Party (Nea Dimocratia, New Democracy), […]