The CIA World Factbook Edition 2018 People and Society

People - note In 29 editions of 36.

People - note was published in 29 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1997 to 2025. The 2018 edition carries it in 6 entries, in its People and Society section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2018 edition
6
the first edition with it
1997
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “People - note” (1997 to 2025), “People--note” (1999) and “People-note” (1998).

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Asia

1 entry

China

  • 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 economic needs

Central America and the Caribbean

3 entries

Cuba

  • 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

Dominica

  • 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

Turks and Caicos Islands

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

Middle East

1 entry

Cyprus

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

Oceania

1 entry

Papua New Guinea

  • 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

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2018, “People - note”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/people-note/2018.

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