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Armed forces, conventional weapon holdings and military activities
	Armed forces, weapons holdings and employment in arms production
	Conventional armed forces in Europe ceilings and holdings
	Planned notifiable military activities
Arms production, trade, embargoes and export controls
	Arms embargoes
Country indicators and statistics
	Child and elderly populations
	Corruption perception index
	Education
	Failed States Index
	Human settlements
	Income and economic activity
	Life expectancy, fertility and mortality statistics
	Population statistics
	Water supply and sanitation
Government, memberships and agreements
	Arms control and disarmament agreements
	Membership of international organizations
	Voter turnout in parliamentary and presidential elections
Human rights
	Freedom in the World
	Political terror scale
	Worldwide press freedom index
Human security, conflicts and peace keeping activities
	Conflict barometer
	Global Peace Index
	IDP (Internally displaced person)
	Major armed conflicts
	Multilateral peace operations
	The UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Program) Database
Military expenditure
	Military expenditure
News, events and reference data
	Chronology of security related events
	Disease Outbreaks
	Security watch
Nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles
	Nuclear explosions
	Nuclear forces

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Facts on International Relations and Security Trends

The FIRST system offers researchers, politicians and the media an authoritative and structured factual reference system on international relations and security trends. It contains high-quality, up-to-date and clearly documented information in areas such as:

conflicts, arms transfers and military expenditure
hard facts on states and international organizations
economic and social statistics
chronologies

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