[227] Non-Competitive Elections

Highlighted areas indicate those countries that are democratic in name only. Dictatorships, Communist states, and military states either ban popular elections, disregard their results, or hand-pick the candidates. Floundering or corrupt representative democracies often do no better at generating competitive elections.

[225-3] Terrorism

Darkened areas indicate presence of terrorist groups. Underlined groups are active in more than one country, underscoring their multinational and transnational character and ambition.

[224] World Average Temperature

The equator equals the average temperature at the beginning of the 20th century. For the last 1 million years the average temperature of the world has fluctuated

[223] Mobile Phone Society

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Represented are countries in which more than 20% of telephones are mobile phones. Cambodia has the highest percentage. It has more mobile phone (65%) than land lines. the value of the copper content of a few miles of telephone cable can feed a family for a few weeks. Cambodia, Chad, Congo and Afghanistan had only 1 telephone line per 1000 people before 2000.

[221-3] Internet Users

The size of the respective national Internet top-level domain code represents the amount of users.
Darker print indicates a higher percentage of the population with Internet access. In some countries of the Middle East the amount of users have doubled within a 2 year period.

[221] Internet Users

Germany (.de) had about 15 million Internet users in the beginning of 2000. The size of the respective national Internet top-level domain code represents the amount of users. Government surveillance of Internet communication is routinely practiced in several countries (.de, .sg, .cn).