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Asia > Kyrgyzstan > Environment

KYRGYZSTANI ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [110th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 1.49 % of GNI ... [14th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.27 % of GNI ... [102nd of 165]
Areas under protection 78 [55th of 146]
    (per capita) 15.1574 per 1 million people [33rd of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 4,335 thousand hectares [13th of 86]
    (per capita) 842.402 thousand hectares per 1 [5th of 86]
Carbon efficiency 1.49 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [52nd of 141]
CO2 Emissions 4,849.3 [105th of 178]
    (per capita) 0.942344 per 1,000 people [112nd of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.63 kg/PPP$ ... [35th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 5,318.68 kt ... [109th of 195]
    (per capita) 1.056 kt per 1,000 people ... [123rd of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 ... [51st of 75]
Current issues
water pollution; many people get their water directly from contaminated streams and wells; as a result, water-borne diseases are prevalent; increasing soil salinity from faulty irrigation practices
Ecological footprint 1.87 [75th of 141]
Endangered species protection 0.00% (2000) [131st of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 419.5 hundred grams/hectare [82nd of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 4.53 % of land area ... [169th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 8,690 km² ... [123rd 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; 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: Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyz Respublikasy

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