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How to read a figure here

Each figure carries a label saying what it rests on, and the date it was read. A label is never promoted: a figure read from open data stays Secondary even when it agrees with a ministry.

Three labels

Official
Read from a government authority's own page or legal text. The page and the quotation are kept.
Secondary
Open data, an academic coding or a company's own published terms, named with its licence.
Derived
Coded by us from an instrument, such as an EU regulation's annex, and labelled with that instrument.

Two kinds of absence

Not found
The source was read and does not state it. This is a finding, not a gap in our work.
Not read
The source would not serve, or the collection has not reached this country. Nothing is inferred in its place.
Depends on your passport

What changes with the passport

Entry, both ways; whether you keep your citizenship if you naturalise; the missions on both sides; a licence exchanged without a test where the country names yours; and travel advice, which is shown only to the passport it was written for. Everything marked Same for every passport is the country's own rule for anyone.

What this site does not do

  • It does not advise. It sets out what each authority states, and where it is silent.
  • It does not rank countries or passports, and it does not total them.
  • It does not replace a mission's own instructions; a consulate may ask for more than its ministry publishes.