Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
0.43 % of GNI
0.03 % of GNI
DEFINITION:
Net forest depletion is calculated as the product of unit resource rents and the excess of roundwood harvest over natural growth.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 33rd in 1999. 13 times more than Malaysia
Ranked 48th in 1999.
Areas under protection
219
190
DEFINITION:
Protected Areas under IUCN management categories I - VI (1992-2003)
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 29th. 15% more than Malaysia
Ranked 33rd.
Carbon efficiency
3.89 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
1.92 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
DEFINITION:
Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)GDP
SOURCE:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Ranked 10th. 103% more than Malaysia
Ranked 38th.
CO2 Emissions
14,883.9
123,603
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 78th.
Ranked 31st. 7 times more than Estonia
CO2 emissions > kt (per capita)
13.5 kt
per 1,000 people
6.4 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 16th in 2003. 110% more than Malaysia
Ranked 54th in 2003.
Ecological footprint
7.12
3.68
DEFINITION:
Ecological footprint per capita
SOURCE:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress .
Ranked 12th. 93% more than Malaysia
Ranked 46th.
Endangered species protection
85.7%
85.7%
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 44th.
Ranked 46th.
Forest area > % of land area
53.88 % of land area
63.58 % 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 34th in 2005.
Ranked 19th in 2005. 18% more than Estonia
Forest area > sq. km
22,840 km²
208,900 km²
DEFINITION:
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 99th in 2005.
Ranked 29th in 2005. 8 times more than Estonia
Known mammal species
65
300
DEFINITION:
Known mammal species (1992-2002).
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 124th.
Ranked 17th. 4 times more than Estonia
Marine fish catch
95,315 tons
1,057,190 tons
DEFINITION:
Total marine fish catch
SOURCE:
FAOSTAT on-line database
Ranked 58th.
Ranked 15th. 10 times more than Estonia
NOx emissions per populated area
0.09 thousand metric tons/squ
0.21 thousand metric tons/squ
DEFINITION:
NOx 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 125th.
Ranked 81st. 133% more than Estonia
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
4,409
33,748
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 79th.
Ranked 28th. 7 times more than Estonia
Protected area
12
4.5
DEFINITION:
Environmentally protected area (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 31st. 167% more than Malaysia
Ranked 87th.
SO2 emissions per populated area
580 thousand metric tons/squ
1,600 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 70th.
Ranked 41st. 176% more than Estonia
Threatened species
10
107
DEFINITION:
Number of Threatened Species (1990-99)
SOURCE:
United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ranked 131st.
Ranked 17th. 10 times more than Estonia
Threatened species > Mammal
4
42
DEFINITION:
Number of threatened mammal species (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 131st.
Ranked 12th. 10 times more than Estonia
Water > Availability
7.4 thousand cubic metres
20.24 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 46th.
Ranked 26th. 174% more than Estonia
Wildness
2.86%
27.45%
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 73rd.
Ranked 40th. 9 times more than Estonia
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