Today, June 17th, Bulgaria, last country in the European Union, started issuing biometric identity cards,…
Summarising Updates of our Global Coverage
The latest country to update its passports to the biometric version is Saint Lucia.
Since the announcement of our Testnet, a number of additional countries have announced that they are issuing new identity documents (i.e., biometric identity cards and/or biometric passports) that could be used on our blockchain. And now, with the global population on the verge of crossing the mark of 8 billion, we summarise the additional maximum addressable population that have been enabled with the recent updates (an additional 30.28%):
Country | Population |
Saint Lucia | 178,696 |
Jamaica | 2,734,093 |
Suriname | 598,000 |
Iraq | 41,190,700 |
Lebanon | 6,769,000 |
Peru | 33,396,698 |
Rwanda | 12,955,768 |
Albania | 2,829,741 |
Ghana | 30,832,019 |
Maldives | 383,135 |
Monaco | 39,150 |
San Marino | 33,776 |
Turkey | 84,680,273 |
Seychelles | 99,202 |
Saudi Arabia | 35,013,414 |
Armenia | 2,963,900 |
Nepal | 29,192,480 |
Vietnam | 98,506,193 |
Commonwealth of Dominica | 72,000 |
Kyrgyzstan | 6,800,000 |
Togo | 7,886,000 |
Cameroon | 24,348,251 |
Zimbabwe | 15,178,979 |
Angola | 33,086,278 |
Dominican Republic | 10,535,535 |
Pakistan | 229,489,000 |
Belarus | 9,255,524 |
Ivory Coast | 29,389,150 |
Barbados | 288,000 |
Morocco | 36,737,109 |
Mexico | 128,533,664 |
Belgium | 11,671,737 |
Croatia | 3,888,529 |
Cyprus | 918,100 |
France | 67,918,000 |
Malta | 519,562 |
Norway | 5,455,582 |
Romania | 19,038,098 |
Costa Rica | 5,163,038 |
Ecuador | 18,073,912 |
India | 1,375,586,000 |
Total | 2,422,228,286 |
Additional percentage | 30.28% |