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Areas under protection
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25 |
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[83rd of 146]
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Carbon efficiency
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6.29 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[1st of 141]
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DEFINITION: Carbon economic efficiency (CO2 emissions per dollar GDP)
Units: Metric Tons/US Dollar GDP |
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SOURCE: World Resources Institute |
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CO2 Emissions
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18,089.9 |
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[74th of 178]
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DEFINITION: CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide |
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SOURCE: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center |
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Ecological footprint
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2.43 |
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[65th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Ecological footprint per capita
Units: Hectares per Person |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Endangered species protection
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66.7% |
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[74th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Percent of CITES reporting requirements met
Units: Percent of Requirements Met
Units: Countries that have not ratified the CITES convention are recorded as having zero percent of their requirements met. |
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SOURCE: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress. |
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Forest area > % of land area
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44.05 % of land area
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[55th of 195]
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DEFINITION: Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Forest area > sq. km
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2,260 km²
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[150th of 195]
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DEFINITION: Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees, whether productive or not. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Known mammal species
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100 |
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[84th of 145]
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DEFINITION: Known mammal species (1992-2002). |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Marine fish catch
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14,250 tons |
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[83rd of 141]
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DEFINITION: Total marine fish catch
Units: Metric Tons |
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SOURCE: World Resources Institute |
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.57 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[31st of 141]
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DEFINITION: NOx emissions per populated land area
Units: 1000 Metric Tons/Sq. Km. of Populated Land Area
Units: We obtained the total emissions for each country by summarizing emissions data, originally available as a grid map with 1 degree x 1 degree cells. Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then used this land area as a denominator for the emissions data. |
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SOURCE: FAOSTAT on-line database |
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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6,847 |
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[69th of 199]
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DEFINITION: 1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2). |
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SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE |
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Protected area
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3 |
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[102nd of 147]
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DEFINITION: Environmentally protected area (1997) |
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SOURCE: Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication |
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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520 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[76th of 141]
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DEFINITION: SO2 emissions per populated land area
Units: 1000 Metric Tons/Sq. Km. of Populated Land Area
Units: We obtained the total emissions for each country by summarizing emissions data, originally available as a grid map with 1 degree x 1 degree cells. Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then used this land area as a denominator for the emissions data. |
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SOURCE: Jacaranda Atlas |
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Threatened species
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9 |
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[135th of 158]
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DEFINITION: Number of Threatened Species (1990-99) |
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SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE |
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Threatened species > Mammal
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1 |
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[157th of 160]
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DEFINITION: Number of threatened mammal species (1997) |
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SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
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Water > Availability
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1.58 thousand cubic metres |
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[92nd of 141]
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DEFINITION: Water availability per capita (1961-1990 (avg.))
Units: Thousands Cubic Meters/Person
Units: This variable measures internal renewable water (average annual surface runoff and groundwater recharge generated from endogenous precipitation) |
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SOURCE: Jacaranda Atlas |
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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9.61 mls/litre |
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[30th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Dissolved oxygen concentration
Units: Milligrams/Liter
Units: The country values represent averages of the station-level values for the three year time period 1994-96, exceptwhere data were only available for an earlier time period (1988-1993). The number of stations per country varies depending on country size; number of bodies of water; and level of participation in the GEMS monitoring system. The data from "The Wellbeing of Nations" included a smaller subset of stations representing outfalls of major watersheds. An analysis of a sample of countries with numerous stations found that the data for stations in the subset is broadly comparable to the data for all GEMS stations in those countries. |
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SOURCE: Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org |
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Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions
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3.78 %
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[62nd of 114]
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DEFINITION: Industry shares of emissions of organic water pollutants refer to emissions from manufacturing activities as defined by two-digit divisions of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 2: textiles (32). Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. |
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SOURCE: 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 |
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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2.01 %
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[43rd of 114]
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DEFINITION: Industry shares of emissions of organic water pollutants refer to emissions from manufacturing activities as defined by two-digit divisions of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 2: wood (33). Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Wildness
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0% |
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[130th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Percent of land area having very low anthropogenic impact
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: Global grids for population (GPW), land use (USGS AVHRR based classification from EROS data center), VMAP roads, VMAP railways, VMAP coastlines, VMAP major rivers and the stable lights data were all scored for "wildness". The scores were aggregated and normalized. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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