Areas under protection
1,325
3,481
DEFINITION:
Protected Areas under IUCN management categories I - VI (1992-2003)
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 11th.
Ranked 8th. 163% more than France
Carbon efficiency
0.78 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
1.77 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
DEFINITION:
Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)GDP
SOURCE:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Ranked 94th.
Ranked 42nd. 127% more than France
CO2 Emissions
363,484
5,762,050
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 11th.
Ranked 1st. 15 times more than France
Ecological footprint
7.27
12.22
DEFINITION:
Ecological footprint per capita
SOURCE:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress .
Ranked 11th.
Ranked 2nd. 68% more than France
Endangered species protection
100%
87.5%
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 19th. 14% more than United States
Ranked 39th.
Forest area > % of land area
28.27 % of land area
33.08 % 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 102nd in 2005.
Ranked 84th in 2005. 17% more than France
Known mammal species
93
428
DEFINITION:
Known mammal species (1992-2002).
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 90th.
Ranked 4th. 4 times more than France
Municipal waste generation
510 kgs per person per year
760 kgs per person per year
DEFINITION:
Kilograms of municipal waste generated per year (2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002
Ranked 13th.
Ranked 1st. 49% more than France
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
98,168
1,499,850
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 12th.
Ranked 1st. 14 times more than France
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
109
1,571
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 11th.
Ranked 1st. 13 times more than France
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
6.0
20.0
DEFINITION:
Tons of Carbon Dioxide produced per capita in 1998 or latest available year. Carbon dioxide from energy use only. Excludes international marine bunkers.
SOURCE:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium
Ranked 24th.
Ranked 1st. 2 times more than France
Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
590.0
720.0
DEFINITION:
Municipal waste is that which is collected and treated by or for municipalities : household waste and bulky waste as well as comparable waste from small communities or industrial enterprises; and market and garden residue .
SOURCE:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium
Ranked 8th.
Ranked 1st. 22% more than France
Pollution > Nuclear waste
1,130
2,100
DEFINITION:
Wastes from spent fuel arising in nuclear power plants, measured in terms of heavy metal . Data for 1998 or latest available year.
SOURCE:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium
Ranked 3rd.
Ranked 1st. 86% more than France
Protected area
11.7
13.4
DEFINITION:
Environmentally protected area (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 32nd.
Ranked 26th. 15% more than France
Threatened species
89
854
DEFINITION:
Number of Threatened Species (1990-99)
SOURCE:
United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ranked 21st.
Ranked 1st. 9 times more than France
Waste generation
360 kgs per person per year
460 kgs per person per year
DEFINITION:
Kilograms of waste generated per person per year ( 2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002
Ranked 10th.
Ranked 4th. 28% more than France
Water > Availability
3.26 thousand cubic metres
7.09 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 65th.
Ranked 47th. 117% more than France
Water > Freshwater pollution
2.49 tons/cubic km
1.14 tons/cubic km
DEFINITION:
Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwaterbiochemical 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. The data from the World Bank, which represented BOD emissions (kilograms per day) were normalized by the combination of water availability per capita and water inflow availability per capita from the WaterGap2.1 model. In calculating the ESI, the base-10 logarithm of this variable was used.
SOURCE:
World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org
Ranked 20th. 118% more than United States
Ranked 30th.
Wildness
0.04%
35.89%
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 107th.
Ranked 32nd. 896 times more than France
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