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Asia > Korea, South > Environment

KOREAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Carbon efficiency 1.51 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [48th of 141]
Current issues
air pollution in large cities; acid rain; water pollution from the discharge of sewage and industrial effluents; drift net fishing
Ecological footprint 5.6 [23rd of 141]
Endangered species protection 100% [20th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 63.46 % of land area Time series [20th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 62,650 km² Time series [68th of 195]
NOx emissions per populated area 1.24 thousand metric tons/squ [14th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 107,399 [9th of 199]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000 115 [10th of 25]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 8 [20th of 29]
Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita 400 [22nd of 29]
Pollution > Nuclear waste 364 [7th of 16]
Protected area 2.4 [112nd of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area 19,430 thousand metric tons/squ [2nd of 141]
Threatened species 26 [78th of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 6 [118th of 160]
Water > Availability 1.16 thousand cubic metres [104th of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 5.68 tons/cubic km [9th of 69]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions 1.46 % Time series [40th of 114]
Wildness 0% [132nd of 141]

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SOURCES: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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 Development Indicators database; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; 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: Korea, South, Republic of Korea, South Korea, Taehan-min'guk, korea, republic of, korea, rep. of, korea-south, SKOREA, Korea Republic, Korean Republic, Korea (Rep.), Korea

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