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Africa > Angola > Environment

ANGOLAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 1.83% [40th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.26 % of GNI ... [116th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 1.82 % of GNI ... [3rd of 165]
Areas under protection 14 [101st of 146]
    (per capita) 1.18373 per 1 million people [101st of 146]
Biodiversity richness 2 [25th of 53]
Breeding birds threatened 1.96% [81st of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.54 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [109th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 4,854.4 [104th of 178]
    (per capita) 0.410451 per 1,000 people [134th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.3 kg/PPP$ ... [90th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 8,615.38 kt ... [96th of 195]
    (per capita) 0.573 kt per 1,000 people ... [145th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 2.5 ... [71st of 75]
Current issues
overuse of pastures and subsequent soil erosion attributable to population pressures; desertification; deforestation of tropical rain forest, in response to both international demand for tropical timber and to domestic use as fuel, resulting in loss of biodiversity; soil erosion contributing to water pollution and siltation of rivers and dams; inadequate supplies of potable water
Ecological footprint 0.82 [132nd of 141]
Endangered species protection 0.00% (2000) [137th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 17.33 hundred grams/hectare [130th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 47.41 % of land area ... [43rd of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 591,040 km² ... [14th of 195]

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SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; ; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; 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; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Angola, Republic of Angola, Republica de Angola

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