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% |