More countries supporting biometric IDs will be available on our blockchain: Malta: biometric passports and e-IDsJordan: biometric passportsTunisia: approved new laws authorising biometric identity cards and passportsPortugal: new contactless identity card
The last countries almost closing the gap to achieve biometric identification: Libya: finally issuing biometric passports after more than a decade.Argentina: their identity card is being upgraded to the NFC/biometric version.
For the end of the year, three heavily populated countries are getting biometric passports: Syria: already issuing biometric passports since 30 AugustEthiopia: reaching agreements to issue biometric passportsSri Lanka: launching a tender for the issuance of biometric passports
Caveats: Including a country doesn't mean that all its citizens have a biometric identity document: it only means that citizens have the possibility to acquire a biometric identity document (e.g., biometric passport)Countries that have just started to issue biometric identity…
More countries are issuing biometric IDs: Iceland: new biometric IDs implementing EU Regulation 2019/1157 from December 1, 2023Liechtenstein: updated IDs also implementing EU Regulation 2019/1157 from January 3, 2024
A new set of countries are upgrading their identity documents: "Port of Spain commitment on digital integration": 11 Caribbean countries have agreed to update their digital identities and make them interoperable (i.e., this agreement will lead them to upgrade their…
The latest countries to update their identity documents to support biometric authentication: Sierra Leona: their identity cards are now being issued supporting biometric authentication, following ECOWAS regulations.Mali: new biometric identity cards.Guyana: new biometric identity cards for the issuance of work…
A third of the countries in the world lack any kind of identity documents with biometric identification (i.e., biometric passports OR biometric identity cards): as of 2023 this proportion may seen to be very high, but they only comprise 6.7%…
The following countries have adopted biometric authentication on their identification documents: Portugal: their identity cards are finally contactless, in line with the rest of European countriesIraq: biometric passports are being issued to the populationHonduras: new biometric passports after many years…
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…