Highlights from recent updates to The Statesman's Yearbook online resource
The Statesman's Yearbook online resource is fully updated with information from the 2011 edition of the book. It now contains more facts and figures than ever before, and continues to be regularly updated by our dedicated team.
What's New?
Our dedicated team update The Statesman's Yearbook online resource on a regular basis, providing new and up-to-date reliable articles, chronologies and overviews on recent events and developments around the world.
Take a look at some of the highlights from recent updates.
October 2010 Updates included:
- Cabinet reshuffles in Albania, Angola, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania and Senegal
- Leadership changes in Peru, Somalia and South Korea
- Following elections in Tuvalu a new cabinet takes office
- Parliamentary elections in Latvia and Venezuela
- Economic overviews for every country in the world featuring brand new overviews for Palau, Timor Leste and Tuvalu
- New governor-general of Canada and Captains Regent in San Marino
- Separation of the Netherlands Antilles
- Solomon Islands' new prime minister and cabinet take office
September 2010 Updates included:
- Sweden faces a hung parliament after parliamentary elections
- Australia's 43rd parliament is elected and a new cabinet sworn in
- Cabinet reshuffles in Botswana, Burundi and Greece
- New economic overviews for Antigua and Barbuda, Gambia and São Tomé e Príncipe
- São Tomé e Principé’s election results and the subsequent new cabinet
- Hungary, Poland and Suriname's presidents are sworn in
- Colombia's new president and cabinet take office
- Rwanda's president is re-elected
August 2010 Updates included:
- Cabinet reshuffles in Benin and Mexico
- Suriname's national assembly elects a new president
- New economic overviews for Comoros, Dominica, Guinea-Bissau and Vanuatu
July 2010 Updates included:
- Cabinet reshuffles in Belize, the Gambia, Seychelles, Somalia and Zimbabwe
- Leadership changes in Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, the Philippines and Slovakia
- Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD
- Elections in Belgium, Burundi, Guinea, the Netherlands and Poland
June 2010 Updates included:
- UK emergency budget
- Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is ousted by Julia Gillard
- Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is sworn in alongside his new cabinet in Hungary
- President Laura Chinchilla is sworn in alongside her new cabinet in Costa Rica
May 2010 Updates included:
- Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition cabinet take office following the UK's general election
- Historic Sudanese presidential elections and Fischer retains power in Austria's presidential election
- Details of Sri Lanka's new prime minister and government
April 2010 Updates included:
- Newly updated profile of US president Barack Obama
- Latest information on the Russian and American nuclear arsenals
- US healthcare reforms
- Revised economic overviews for Brazil, Canada, France, Italy and Spain
- Namibia and Nigeria's new governments take office
- Following Polish president Lech Kaczyński's untimely death an acting president takes over
- Cabinet reshuffles in Ireland and Mauritania
- Legislative elections in Iraq and Tajikistan
March 2010 Updates included:
- Updated economic overviews for Australia, India, Russia, South Korea and the UAE
- Chile's new president Sebastián Piñera is sworn in along with his cabinet
- Guinean Prime Minister Jean Marie Doré's cabinet takes office
- The Labour Party leaves the Netherlands coalition government
- A new government is formed in Niger after President Tandja Mamadou is overthrown in a military coup
- Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as Ukrainian president following a second round of voting in presidential elections. Prime Minister Tymoshenko is ousted and a new government sworn in
- Uruguay's new president and cabinet take office
- Cabinet reshuffles in Brazil, Cape Verde, Guatemala, Venezuela and Zambia
February 2010 Updates included:
- Cabinet reshuffles in Bolivia, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Japan, Lithuania and Tunisia
- New prime ministers take office in Guinea and Mozambique
- Angola and Honduras' new governments are sworn in
- Results of Sri Lanka's presidential election
- Newly updated economic overviews for the Netherlands and Turkey
January 2010 Updates included:
- Economic overviews for Austria, Indonesia, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Sweden
- Romania's latest cabinet as prime minister Emil Boc returns to power
- Parliamentary elections in Dominica and Uzbekistan
- Presidential elections in Chile and Croatia
December 2009 Updates included:
- Belgium's cabinet reshuffle after Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy is elected president of the EU Council
- Honduras' first post-coup elections
- Cabinet reshuffles under new prime ministers in Haiti and Lebanon
November 2009 Updates included:
- Details of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new cabinet
- Presidential elections in Equatorial Guinea and Romania
- Presidential and parliamentary elections in Namibia and Uruguay
October 2009 Updates included:
- Merkel retains power in Germany's legislative elections
- Botswana, Greece and Niger hold parliamentary elections
- Mongolia's prime minister resigns
- Norway's new government sworn in
September 2009 Updates included:
- All 145 years of The Statesman's Yearbook Archive are now available. Explore this unique historical resource today
- The UAE opens its first metro system
- Presidential elections in Afghanistan, Gabon and Vanuatu
- Albania's new coalition government and Guinea-Bissau's new government
August 2009 Updates included:
- Credit Crunch Chronology with monthly entries since April 2007.
- Week by week chronology of events up to July 2009
- Brand new economic overviews for Montenegro, Rwanda, San Marino and Sierra Leone
- Economic overviews for Germany
July 2009 Updates included:
- European Parliament election results
- Results of Iran's controversial presidential election
- Alaska's new Governor after Sarah Palin steps down to run for president
- Croatia's first female prime minister and Lithuania's first female president take office
June 2009 Updates included:
- Latest election results for Kuwait, the Maldives and Panama
- South Ossetia's 'illegal' parliamentary elections
- Details of PLO leader Salam Fayyad's return to power
- Cabinet reshuffles in Nepal and Andorra
May 2009 Updates included:
- Leader profiles for the prime minister of Denmark; the prime minister of Israel; the president of South Africa; and the prime minister of Thailand
- Extended leader profiles for Barack Obama and Gordon Brown
- Economic overviews for Japan, the UK and the USA
- Economic performance in the UK
April 2009 Updates included:
- Leader profiles for theprime minister of Latvia; the president of Palau; the prime minister of Romania; and the president of Zambia
- 2008 GDP growth rates for France, Germany and the USA
- Economic overviews for Belgium, China, Latvia and Venezuela
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