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2025 hunger crisis in Syria
The 2025 hunger crisis in Syria is the food insecurity affecting roughly 14.5 million Syrians after the fall of Assad, worsened by Syria's worst drought in 36 years.
2025–2026 hunger crisis in Afghanistan
The 2025–2026 hunger crisis in Afghanistan is a severe food insecurity deterioration in which 17.4 million people, 36 percent of the population, faced crisis or worse at the winter peak.
2026 Philippine energy crisis
The 2026 Philippine energy crisis was a period of brownouts and grid alerts in the Philippines, beginning with a declared national energy emergency in March 2026.
Economy of Afghanistan
The economy of Afghanistan is a low-income, import-dependent economy with nominal GDP of US$17.2 billion in 2023, cut off from global finance after the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Economy of Armenia
The economy of Armenia is a small, service-oriented economy of about 29 billion US dollars in nominal GDP in 2025, oriented toward Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Economy of Asia
The economy of Asia, also known as the Asian economy, is the aggregate economic activity of the world's most populous continent, contributing about 60 percent of global growth in 2025.
Economy of Bahrain
The economy of Bahrain is a small Gulf economy where non-oil sectors generate about 86 percent of GDP, led by financial services and aluminum, though oil still funds much of government spending.
Economy of Bangladesh
The economy of Bangladesh grew at an average 5.6 percent a year from 1990 to 2022, powered by garment exports, 85 percent of merchandise exports, and remittances.
Economy of Bhutan
The economy of Bhutan is a small, lower-middle-income, landlocked economy of about US$3.7 billion in 2025, organized around hydropower exports to India, a rupee-pegged currency, and Gross National Happiness.
Economy of Brunei
The economy of Brunei, also known as the Bruneian economy, is a small, high-income rentier economy of about 450,000 people, with oil and gas supplying roughly half of GDP.
Economy of Cambodia
The economy of Cambodia is a heavily dollarized, lower-middle-income economy of about $47 billion, driven by garment exports and tourism and facing US tariffs in 2025.
Economy of Central Asia
The economy of Central Asia is the combined economy of five former Soviet republics, about $519 billion in 2024, dominated by oil, gas, and mineral exports and tied to Russia and China.
Economy of China
China's economy is the world's second-largest at market exchange rates and the largest by purchasing power parity, growing 5.0 percent in 2024 despite a property bust.
Economy of East Asia and the Pacific
The economy of East Asia and the Pacific is the World Bank's regional grouping, with a combined GDP of about $33.7 trillion and 2.33 billion people in 2025.
Economy of East Timor
The economy of East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, is a small, oil-dependent economy funded by an $18.6 billion Petroleum Fund as its main fields ceased production in 2025.
Economy of Georgia (country)
The economy of Georgia is an upper-middle-income market economy of 3.7 million people in the South Caucasus, built on trade, transit, services, and remittances, growing 9.4 percent in 2024.
Economy of Hong Kong
The economy of Hong Kong, also known as the Hong Kong economy, is a highly open, service-dominated economy whose currency has been pegged to the US dollar since 1983.
Economy of India
The economy of India is the fifth-largest national economy, a services-led, largely informal system with GDP of US$3,576.9 billion in 2023-24 and agriculture employing over 45% of workers.
Economy of Indonesia
The economy of Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest, is a commodity-rich market economy of 284 million people that grew about 5 percent a year in recent years.
Economy of Iran
The economy of Iran, also called the Iranian economy, is a large, state-dominated economy of about 92 million people, dependent on oil and gas and under sanctions since 2010.
Economy of Iraq
The economy of Iraq is a rentier oil economy in which crude oil supplies over 90 percent of exports and government revenue, and the state payroll supports millions.
Economy of Israel
The Economy of Israel is a small, innovation-driven advanced economy. Its high-tech sector accounts for 17 to 18 percent of GDP and 57 to 60 percent of exports.
Economy of Japan
The economy of Japan is one of the world's largest national economies, a highly industrialized, export-oriented system marked by high public debt and an aging population.
Economy of Jordan
The economy of Jordan is a services-led Middle Eastern economy with severe water scarcity, 21 percent unemployment, and heavy dependence on foreign grants, Gulf remittances, and borrowing.
Economy of Kazakhstan
The economy of Kazakhstan is an upper-middle-income, hydrocarbon-led economy of about USD 291 billion in 2024, in which oil, gas, uranium, coal, and gold dominate exports.
Economy of Kuwait
The economy of Kuwait is an oil-dependent rentier economy where hydrocarbons supply most exports and government revenue, oil and gas exceed 90 percent of exports, and nominal GDP is about US$160 billion.
Economy of Kyrgyzstan
The economy of Kyrgyzstan is a small, services-heavy Central Asian economy, a Eurasian Economic Union member that depends on Russian remittances and gold from the Kumtor mine.
Economy of Laos
The economy of Laos is a small, resource-dependent Southeast Asian economy of about $16 billion in annual output, built on hydropower, mining, agriculture, and transit services along the Laos–China Railway.
Economy of Lebanon
The economy of Lebanon, also called the Lebanese economy, is a small, dollarized, service- and diaspora-driven economy that has been in severe crisis since 2019.
Economy of Malaysia
The economy of Malaysia is a trade-dependent, upper-middle-income economy in Southeast Asia where services and manufacturing generate about 82.5% of GDP and electronics dominate exports.