Nauru Environment Stats

Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:
Pollution > Ozone depleting substance consumption: Consumption of all Ozone-Depleting Substances in ODP metric tons.
Pollution > Ozone depleting substance consumption per million people: Consumption of all Ozone-Depleting Substances in ODP metric tons. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, total.
Threatened species: Number of Threatened Species (1990-99)
Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, total.

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STAT	AMOUNT	DATE	RANK
Current issues	limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources	2011
Pollution > Ozone depleting substance consumption	0.01	2011	156th out of 164
Pollution > Ozone depleting substance consumption per million people	1.07	2011	108th out of 163
Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban and rural	65.61	2011	127th out of 188
Threatened species	2	1990	157th out of 158
Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban and rural	95.99	2011	95th out of 194

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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