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Africa > Ethiopia > Environment

ETHIOPIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [56th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.48 % of GNI ... [68th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 5.04 % of GNI ... [4th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.33 % of GNI ... [87th of 165]
Areas under protection 39 [72nd of 146]
    (per capita) 0.533859 per 1 million people [127th of 146]
Biodiversity richness 1 [48th of 53]
Breeding birds threatened 2.56% [67th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.15 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [135th of 141]
CFC consumption 24.8 [95th of 107]
    (per capita) 0.00033948 per 1,000 people [97th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 3,648.6 [111st of 178]
    (per capita) 0.0499446 per 1,000 people [170th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.14 kg/PPP$ ... [139th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 7,333.33 kt ... [100th of 195]
    (per capita) 0.107 kt per 1,000 people ... [180th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3.5 ... [19th of 75]
Current issues
deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; water shortages in some areas from water-intensive farming and poor management
Ecological footprint 0.85 [128th of 141]
Endangered species protection 90% [30th of 141]

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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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik, Ityop'iya

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