Britannica Book of the Year 1991

Describing the events and advances of knowledge in 1990, this volume includes a feature on the global environment and special reports on the collapse of the junk bond market, the Gulf crisis, the 1990 US census, religion in world affairs, Japanese-US relations, German unification and the Soviet nationalities problem. A Britannica update section reproduces important, recently revised Encyclopaedia Britannica articles and gives a bibliography of recent books. The volume also includes Britannica World Data, which provides statistics on 186 countries and also gives comparative social, economic and financial data under 24 headings.