Areas under protection
802
497
DEFINITION:
Protected Areas under IUCN management categories I - VI (1992-2003)
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 16th. 61% more than India
Ranked 21st.
Biodiversity richness
1
1
DEFINITION:
Caldecott, J.O., M.D. Jenkins, T. Johnson and B. Groombridge. 1994. Priorities for Conserving Global Species Richness and Endemism. In World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Biodiversity Series No. 3 (N. Mark Collins, ed.) pp. 17. World Conservation Press, Cambridge , UK .
Ranked 47th.
Ranked 52nd.
Carbon efficiency
0.71 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
1.39 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
DEFINITION:
Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)GDP
SOURCE:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Ranked 99th.
Ranked 57th. 96% more than Brazil
CO2 Emissions
327,858
1,007,980
DEFINITION:
CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute
Ranked 15th.
Ranked 5th. 2 times more than Brazil
CO2 emissions > kt (per capita)
1.6 kt
per 1,000 people
1.2 kt
per 1,000 people
DEFINITION:
Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 112nd in 2003. 38% more than India
Ranked 120th in 2003.
Ecological footprint
2.6
1.06
DEFINITION:
Ecological footprint per capita
SOURCE:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress .
Ranked 61st. 145% more than India
Ranked 109th.
Endangered species protection
54.2%
100%
DEFINITION:
Percent of CITES reporting requirements met
SOURCE:
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora , Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000
Ranked 86th.
Ranked 18th. 85% more than Brazil
Forest area > % of land area
56.47 % of land area
22.77 % of land area
DEFINITION:
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 29th in 2005. 148% more than India
Ranked 115th in 2005.
Forest area > sq. km
4,776,980 km²
677,010 km²
DEFINITION:
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 2nd in 2005. 6 times more than India
Ranked 10th in 2005.
Known mammal species
394
390
DEFINITION:
Known mammal species (1992-2002).
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 7th. 1% more than India
Ranked 8th.
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
82,057
293,938
DEFINITION:
1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
SOURCE:
Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication
Ranked 17th.
Ranked 4th. 3 times more than Brazil
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
95
253
DEFINITION:
Includes carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and coal, and the flaring of natural gas.
SOURCE:
U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001
Ranked 16th.
Ranked 5th. 166% more than Brazil
Protected area
4.2
4.8
DEFINITION:
Environmentally protected area (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 93rd.
Ranked 82nd. 14% more than Brazil
SO2 emissions per populated area
360 thousand metric tons/squ
1,150 thousand metric tons/squ
DEFINITION:
SO2 emissions per populated land areaLand Areacells . Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then used this land area as a denominator for the emissions data.
SOURCE:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios , Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE
Ranked 85th.
Ranked 47th. 2 times more than Brazil
Threatened species
240
193
DEFINITION:
Number of Threatened Species (1990-99)
SOURCE:
United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ranked 5th. 24% more than India
Ranked 7th.
Threatened species > Mammal
71
75
DEFINITION:
Number of threatened mammal species (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 4th.
Ranked 3rd. 6% more than Brazil
Water > Availability
37.25 thousand cubic metres
1.56 thousand cubic metres
DEFINITION:
Water availability per capita (1961-1990 (avg.))precipitation )
SOURCE:
Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org
Ranked 14th. 23 times more than India
Ranked 93rd.
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
1.37 %
0.3 %
DEFINITION:
Industry shares of emissions of organic water pollutants refer to emissions from manufacturing activities as defined by two-digit divisions of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 2: wood (33). Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 71st in 1995. 4 times more than India
Ranked 99th in 1995.
Wildness
50.41%
1.94%
DEFINITION:
Percent of land area having very low anthropogenic impactLand Areapopulation (GPW), land use (USGS AVHRR based classification from EROS data center), VMAP roads, VMAP railways , VMAP coastlines, VMAP major rivers and the stable lights data were all scored for "wildness ". The scores were aggregated and normalized.
SOURCE:
Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
Ranked 21st. 25 times more than India
Ranked 82nd.
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