The Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America) is a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.Along with their associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes basin, Mississippi, and La Plata. …

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SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute · 22 April 2024 English

Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8 per cent in real terms from 2022. This was the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009. The 10 …

invasion of Ukraine. REGIONAL TRENDS Countries in the Americas accounted for 41 per cent of the world’s military expenditure, 2023 7 The Americas Military spending by countries in the Americas reached $1009 billion per cent), Asia and Oceania (1.7 per cent) and the Americas (1.2 per cent). In 2023 the average military military burden was unchanged for states in the Americas, and Asia and Oceania. The largest increase


WHO: World Health Organization · 19 April 2024

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Committee, except countries in the WHO Region of  the Americas, they were accessible only in higher-income


WHO: World Health Organization · 19 April 2024

8 p

Committee, except countries in the WHO Region of  the Americas, they were accessible only in higher-income


IAI: Istituto Affari Internazionali · 18 April 2024 English

Rome, IAI, April 2024, 6 p. (IAI Commentaries ; 24|17)

Mediterranean and Middle East, Asia, Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. IAI publishes an English-language quarterly


PNG NRI: PNG National Research Institute · 18 April 2024 English

The study reported in this paper is to review published and unpublished papers that focus on how to make services including those provided by a helpline available and accessible to …

networks, and help is sought were conducted in the Americas, New when crisis point is reached. We conclude


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 17 April 2024 English

All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …

co-chair of the 1 IPBES Regional Assessment for the Americas (2018), I will examine here challenges and opportunities


UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 English

It is important to note that of material in maps do not imply the expression transgender men and non-binary people also experience pregnancy, and that gender-diverse people experience of any …

countries, and and others, 2023); and across the Americas, while 19 countries have seen a positive trend dismiss these findings number of countries in the Americas where data as stand-alone results from just Inequality UNFPA (United Nations Population in the Americas. New York: UNFPA. Affecting More Than Two-Thirds


IAI: Istituto Affari Internazionali · 17 April 2024 English

Rome, IAI, April 2024, 33 p., ISBN 978-88-9368-326-5

Mediterranean and Middle East, Asia, Eurasia, Africa and the Americas. Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Via dei


UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund · 17 April 2024 French

de la CIPD est l’occasion d’orienter les systèmes sociaux et de santé vers la prestation de services qui favorisent l’autonomisation de tous les individus, le respect de leur diversité, la …

Inequality UNFPA (United Nations Population in the Americas. New York: UNFPA. Affecting More Than Two-Thirds


World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Macroeconomic …

exploit its favorable time zone between Asia and the Americas, Eng- lish language, and widespread literacy


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