Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
0.05 % of GNI
0.02 % 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 44th in 1990. 150% more than Switzerland
Ranked 47th in 1990.
Areas under protection
7,315
2,177
DEFINITION:
Protected Areas under IUCN management categories I - VI (1992-2003)
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 3rd. 2 times more than Switzerland
Ranked 9th.
Carbon efficiency
1.19 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
0.61 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
DEFINITION:
Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)GDP
SOURCE:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Ranked 66th. 95% more than Switzerland
Ranked 104th.
CO2 Emissions
837,425
41,789.4
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 6th. 19 times more than Switzerland
Ranked 58th.
CO2 emissions > kt (per capita)
9.8 kt
per 1,000 people
5.5 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 32nd in 2003. 77% more than Switzerland
Ranked 67th in 2003.
Ecological footprint
6.31
6.63
DEFINITION:
Ecological footprint per capita
SOURCE:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress .
Ranked 14th.
Ranked 13th. 5% more than Germany
Endangered species protection
100%
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 7th.
Ranked 2nd.
Forest area > % of land area
31.76 % of land area
30.52 % 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 87th in 2005. 4% more than Switzerland
Ranked 92nd in 2005.
Known mammal species
76
75
DEFINITION:
Known mammal species (1992-2002).
SOURCE:
World Resources Institute
Ranked 114th. 1% more than Switzerland
Ranked 116th.
Municipal waste generation
540 kgs per person per year
650 kgs per person per year
DEFINITION:
Kilograms of municipal waste generated per year (2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002
Ranked 12th.
Ranked 4th. 20% more than Germany
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
216,213
11,075
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 5th. 19 times more than Switzerland
Ranked 57th.
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
10.0
6.0
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 10th. 67% more than Switzerland
Ranked 23rd.
Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
546.0
600.0
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 12th.
Ranked 5th. 10% more than Germany
Pollution > Nuclear waste
450
64
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 6th. 6 times more than Switzerland
Ranked 12th.
Protected area
27
18
DEFINITION:
Environmentally protected area (1997)
SOURCE:
Jacaranda Atlas
Ranked 6th. 50% more than Switzerland
Ranked 15th.
SO2 emissions per populated area
5,100 thousand metric tons/squ
510 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 8th. 9 times more than Switzerland
Ranked 77th.
Waste generation
340 kgs per person per year
450 kgs per person per year
DEFINITION:
Kilograms of waste generated per person per year ( 2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Environmental Data Compendium: 2002
Ranked 11th.
Ranked 6th. 32% more than Germany
Water > Availability
1.35 thousand cubic metres
5.74 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 99th.
Ranked 54th. 3 times more than Germany
Wildness
0.02%
2.43%
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 109th.
Ranked 78th. 121 times more than Germany
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