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Africa > Nigeria > Environment

NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.00% (1990) [63rd of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.48 % of GNI ... [70th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 0.14 % of GNI ... [45th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.81 % of GNI ... [38th of 165]
Areas under protection 27 [80th of 146]
    (per capita) 0.209683 per 1 million people [140th of 146]
Biodiversity richness 2 [18th of 53]
Biosphere reserves area 131 thousand hectares [65th of 86]
    (per capita) 1.01735 thousand hectares per 1 [80th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 1.32% [104th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 2.12 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [32nd of 141]
CFC consumption 218,258 [11th of 107]
    (per capita) 1.69499 per 1,000 people [27th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 48,145.7 [52nd of 178]
    (per capita) 0.373901 per 1,000 people [135th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.41 kg/PPP$ ... [61st of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 52,175.77 kt ... [53rd of 195]
    (per capita) 0.414 kt per 1,000 people ... [152nd of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 ... [55th of 75]
Current issues
soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, and soil; has suffered serious damage from oil spills; loss of arable land; rapid urbanization

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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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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