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North America > Mexico > Environment

MEXICAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 224 [28th of 146]
Carbon efficiency 1.33 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [58th of 141]
CO2 Emissions 385,075 [10th of 178]
Coral reefs > Area 1,780 sq km [10th of 28]
Ecological footprint 2.69 [58th of 141]
Endangered species protection 87.5% [38th of 141]
Known breeding bird species 440 [12th of 146]
Known mammal species 491 [2nd of 145]
Marine fish catch 882,256 tons [17th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000 103 [14th of 25]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 4 [28th of 29]
Pollution > Nuclear waste 42 [15th of 16]
Pollution > Nuclear waste per capita 0.2 [16th of 16]
Protected area 2.4 [111st of 147]
Threatened species > Mammal 64 [5th of 160]
Water > Availability 3.47 thousand cubic metres [63rd of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 0.42 tons/cubic km [45th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.64 mls/litre [15th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 1,157 thousand hectares [16th of 112]
Wildness 17.65% [49th of 141]

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SOURCES: 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; World Atlas of Coral Reefs accessible via United Nations Environment Program; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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: Mexico, ma*a(c)xico, United Mexican States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos

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