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Africa > Gambia, The > Environment

GAMBIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [122nd of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.48 % of GNI ... [69th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 0.64 % of GNI ... [25th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.8 % of GNI ... [39th of 165]
Areas under protection 6 [128th of 146]
    (per capita) 3.76176 per 1 million people [70th of 146]
Breeding birds threatened 0.71% [123rd of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.34 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [122nd of 141]
CFC consumption 101.72 [85th of 107]
    (per capita) 0.0637743 per 1,000 people [66th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 280.3 [159th of 178]
    (per capita) 0.175737 per 1,000 people [148th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.11 kg/PPP$ ... [147th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 282.05 kt ... [176th of 195]
    (per capita) 0.196 kt per 1,000 people ... [168th of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 ... [50th of 75]
Current issues
deforestation; desertification; water-borne diseases prevalent
Ecological footprint 0.99 [112nd of 141]
Endangered species protection 40.9% [97th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 76.92 hundred grams/hectare [113rd 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Gambia, The, Republic of The Gambia, The Gambia, gambia

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