Country Knowledge Gain

[GoalieManPat121]

Is scouting knowledge of a country really slow in gaining this year? Im doing a LLM save and I just got the ability to scout all Europe. At the start of the year I got some 15+ ada scouts. They were all domestic scouts as they are the only ones I can see. I sent them out. For example I sent one to South Europe and through this whole year he has only gained a sliver of red in Greece. In older versions it would take a little time but after a year it seemed there would be a  lot more knowledge gained in a country. Is it better to just sign foreign with knowledge even if the stats are worse instead of getting a good scout and developing his knowledge of an area.