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| BURMESE ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0.77% |
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[42nd of 141]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.59 % of GNI
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[57th of 165]
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Areas under protection
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4 |
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[134th of 146]
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(per capita)
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0.0851118 per 1 million people |
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[142nd of 146]
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Biodiversity richness
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2 |
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[30th of 53]
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Breeding birds threatened
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4.04% |
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[46th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.42 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[113rd of 141]
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CFC consumption
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61.54 |
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[88th of 107]
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(per capita)
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0.00130945 per 1,000 people |
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[94th of 107]
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CO2 Emissions
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8,875.7 |
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[89th of 178]
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(per capita)
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0.188857 per 1,000 people |
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[147th of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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9,450.54 kt
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[93rd of 195]
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(per capita)
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0.191 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[170th of 196]
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Current issues
deforestation; industrial pollution of air, soil, and water; inadequate sanitation and water treatment contribute to disease |
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Ecological footprint
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1.07 |
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[107th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0.00% (2000) |
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[117th of 141]
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Fertiliser consumption
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179.94 hundred grams/hectare |
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[100th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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49 % of land area
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[41st of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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322,220 km²
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[20th of 195]
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(per capita)
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6,378.132 km²
per 1,000 people |
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[66th 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; UNEP, Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances, 1986-1998, October 1999. via ciesin.org; 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:
Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar
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