People - note In 29 editions of 36.

• in October 2015, the Chinese Government announced that it would change its rules to allow all couples to have two children, loosening a 1979 mandate that restricted many couples to one child;
• the new policy was implemented on 1 January 2016 to address China’s rapidly aging population and future economic needs

• illicit emigration is a continuing problem;
• Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas;
• Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest border;
• the number of Cubans migrating to the US surged after the announcement of normalization of US-Cuban relations in late December 2014 but has decreased since the end of the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy on 12 January 2017

• 3,000-3,500 Kalinago (Carib) still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the Caribbean;
• only 70-100 may be "pure" Kalinago because of years of integration into the broader population

destination and transit point for illegal Haitian immigrants bound for the Bahamas and the US

demographic data for Cyprus represent the population of the government-controlled area and the area administered by Turkish Cypriots, unless otherwise indicated

• the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the most heterogeneous in the world;
• PNG has several thousand separate communities, most with only a few hundred people;
• divided by language, customs, and tradition, some of these communities have engaged in low-scale tribal conflict with their neighbors for millennia;
• the advent of modern weapons and modern migrants into urban areas has greatly magnified the impact of this lawlessness

• Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the World after China, India, and the United States;
• more than half of the Indonesian population - roughly 150 million people or 55% - live on the island of Java (about the size of California) making it the most crowded island on earth

one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia, the other being Timor-Leste

one of only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia, the other being the Philippines