Country Profiles

Security Document World is dedicated to bringing you information about the full range of security documents issued in different countries around the world, including passports, ID cards, driving licenses, health cards and so on. This section gathers together the various country profiles that have been compiled by the site’s editors.

Where possible, the profiles include information on: demographics; relevent government departments; tender sources; volumes of documents issued; suppliers; document costs; validity periods; enrolment and issuance procedures; chip sizes; biometrics; security features; and background information.

• Passport Profile - Georgia - last update 26 October 2007
• Passport Profile - Maldives - last update 2 September 2007
• Macedonia - last update 20 September 2006
• Thailand - last update September 2006
• Passport Profile - Malaysia - last update 10 August 2006
• National ID Profile - Malaysia - last update 20 July 2006
• Passport Profile - Japan - last update 29 June 2006
• Passport Profile - France - last update 16 June 2006
• South Africa - last update 7 April 2006
• USA - last update 14 February 2006
• Australia - last update 13 January 2006
• Germany – last update 23 December 2005
• United Arab Emirates – last update 29 November 2005

Information in these Country Profiles has been obtained from numerous sources whom we believe to be reliable, including vendors, integrators and relevent government departments.

SDW can assume no responsibility for any error or omission and readers should seek to verify information before use.