Between 2000 and 2007, the country's economy improved slowly, according to the CIA World Factbook.

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Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.

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Today Namibia struggles with huge unemployment (around 50% of the population, according to the CIA World Factbook).

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Thailand operates a free enterprise economy and is generally pro-investment, according to data from the CIA World Factbook.

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About two-thirds of Iraq's nearly 32 million people are Shiite, and roughly a third are Sunni, according to the CIA World Factbook.

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According to the CIA World Factbook, around two-thirds of Iraq's nearly 32 million people are Shiite and roughly a third are Sunni.

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The CIA World Factbook says it is the nation's most populous city.

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It's infant mortality rate of 47.40 deaths per 1, 000 live births ranks 47th highest out of 223 ranked by the CIA World Factbook.

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Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with a population of nearly 175 million according to the CIA World Factbook, and is the political and economic powerhouse of West Africa.

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According to the CIA's World Factbook, Georgia has over 900, 000 men between the ages of 16 and 49.

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Eighty percent of the 8.7 million Haitians live in poverty and 54 percent live in abject poverty, according to the CIA's World Factbook.

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