NationMaster - Central African Environment statistics

Areas under protection	14		[100th of 146]
Carbon efficiency	0.17 CO2 emissions/$ GDP		[133rd of 141]
CFC consumption	0		[105th of 107]
CO2 Emissions	285.8		[158th of 178]
Ecological footprint	1.12		[105th of 141]
Endangered species protection	47.4%		[94th of 141]
Known breeding bird species	168		[104th of 146]
Known mammal species	209		[35th of 145]
Marine fish catch	0 tons		[137th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area	0.61 thousand metric tons/squ		[30th of 141]
Protected area	8.2		[49th of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area	290 thousand metric tons/squ		[90th of 141]
Threatened species	14		[121st of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal	11		[79th of 160]
Water > Availability	37.41 thousand cubic metres		[13th of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration	0.35 mls/litre		[69th of 141]
Water pollution, paper and pulp industry > % of total BOD emissions	5.89 %	...	[90th of 111]
Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions	13.81 %	...	[49th of 114]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions	19.58 %	...	[1st of 114]
Wildness	51.5%		[19th of 141]

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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; 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; 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; FAOSTAT on-line database; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Jacaranda Atlas; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from Prescott-Allen, R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001; World Development Indicators database; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Central African Republic, Republique Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central african rep.

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