Ambassadorial Nominations
- Historical Trends by Continent - |
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The chart below shows the division of ambassador slots by continent
between career appointments and political appointments since 1960.
(Updated February 17, 2010)
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Post |
Career
Appointments |
Political
Appointments |
% Political Since 1960 |
| Caribbean |
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| Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago |
40 |
111 |
73.5% |
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| Western Europe |
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| Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
99 |
259 |
72.3% |
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| Oceania |
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| Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu |
75 |
71 |
48.6% |
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| North and Central America |
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Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
82 |
61 |
42.7% |
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| South Asia |
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| Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka |
80 |
31 |
27.9% |
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| East Asia |
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| Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam |
135 |
47 |
25.8% |
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| South America |
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| Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela |
156 |
45 |
22.4% |
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| Eastern Europe |
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| Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine |
140 |
40 |
22.2% |
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| Africa |
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| Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DR), Congo (Republic of), Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equitorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
595 |
108 |
15.4% |
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| The Middle East |
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| Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen |
218 |
36 |
14.2% |
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| Central Asia |
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| Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan |
44 |
0 |
0% |
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