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Environment Stats: compare key data on India & Western Sahara

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STAT India Western Sahara HISTORY
Current issues deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources sparse water and lack of arable land
International agreements > Signed but not ratified none of the selected agreements none of the selected agreements
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 293,938
Ranked 4th. 4522 times more than Western Sahara
65
Ranked 175th.
Proportion of land and marine area under protection 5%
Ranked 146th.
6.71%
Ranked 132nd. 34% more than India

Proportion of land area under protection 5.21%
Ranked 164th.
5.77%
Ranked 160th. 11% more than India

Water > Proportion of marine area under protection 1.61%
Ranked 115th.
18.23%
Ranked 32nd. 11 times more than India

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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