Non-wildness (most recent) by country

SOURCE
Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the last wild places on the earth's surface. Accessed via ciesin.org

DEFINITION
Percent of land area having very high 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.

Environment Statistics > Non-wildness (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Belgium:

43.93%

# 2

Netherlands:

43.79%

# 3

Denmark:

39.45%

# 4

Germany:

32.84%

# 5

United Kingdom:

32.05%

# 6

Japan:

30.22%

# 7

Switzerland:

27.34%

# 8

Hungary:

26.38%

# 9

Czech Republic:

26.11%

# 10

France:

24.26%

# 11

Italy:

23.85%

# 12

Poland:

23.2%

# 13

Slovakia:

21.44%

# 14

Cuba:

21.04%

# 15

Korea, South:

20.92%

# 16

Trinidad and Tobago:

18.61%

# 17

Jamaica:

18.17%

# 18

Ireland:

17.95%

# 19

Sri Lanka:

16.9%

# 20

Austria:

16.76%

# 21

Bangladesh:

16.34%

# 22

Latvia:

16.24%

# 23

Croatia:

16.23%

# 24

Romania:

15.68%

# 25

Bulgaria:

15.47%

# 26

Israel:

14.79%

# 27

Slovenia:

14.55%

# 28

Lebanon:

14.47%

# 29

Ukraine:

14.36%

# 30

Lithuania:

13.99%

# 31

Estonia:

13.63%

# 32

Gambia, The:

13.37%

# 33

Korea, North:

13.31%

# 34

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

12.73%

# 35

Greece:

12.28%

# 36

El Salvador:

12.17%

# 37

Belarus:

10.95%

# 38

Moldova:

10.92%

# 39

Portugal:

10.85%

# 40

Spain:

10.33%

# 41

India:

10.24%

# 42

Philippines:

9.01%

# 43

Costa Rica:

8.41%

# 44

Sweden:

7.48%

# 45

Azerbaijan:

7.31%

# 46

Haiti:

7.22%

# 47

Kuwait:

7.02%

# 48

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

6.99%

# 49

United States:

6.59%

# 50

Albania:

6.09%

# 51

Panama:

6.07%

# 52

Dominica:

5.93%

# 53

Sierra Leone:

4.7%

# 54

Tunisia:

4.31%

# 55

Uruguay:

4.24%

# 56

Pakistan:

4.23%

# 57

Honduras:

4.09%

# 58

Guatemala:

3.93%

# 59

Uzbekistan:

3.9%

# 60

Norway:

3.89%

# 61

Vietnam:

3.77%

# 62

China:

3.76%

# 63

Tajikistan:

3.74%

# 64

Armenia:

3.73%

# 65

Malaysia:

3.72%

# 66

Finland:

3.7%

# 67

Nicaragua:

3.66%

# 68

New Zealand:

3.43%

# 69

Guinea-Bissau:

3.37%

# 70

Indonesia:

3.34%

# 71

South Africa:

2.92%

# 72

Turkey:

2.87%

# 73

Argentina:

2.86%

# 74

Mexico:

2.77%

# 75

Thailand:

2.68%

# 76

Ecuador:

2.66%

# 77

United Arab Emirates:

2.64%

# 78

Egypt:

2.37%

# 79

Chile:

2.35%

# 80

Senegal:

2.21%

# 81

Zimbabwe:

2.01%

# 82

Nepal:

# 83

Togo:

1.99%

# 84

Syria:

1.95%

# 85

Ghana:

1.89%

# 86

Liberia:

1.78%

# 87

Burma:

1.73%

= 88

Uganda:

1.66%

= 88

Kyrgyzstan:

1.66%

# 90

Nigeria:

1.6%

# 91

Brazil:

1.53%

# 92

Morocco:

1.48%

# 93

Russia:

1.46%

# 94

Colombia:

1.33%

# 95

Iraq:

1.2%

# 96

Guinea:

1.18%

# 97

Iran:

1.1%

# 98

Cameroon:

1.09%

= 99

Canada:

1.03%

= 99

Jordan:

1.03%

# 101

Mozambique:

0.95%

# 102

Kenya:

0.93%

# 103

Madagascar:

0.92%

# 104

Malawi:

0.85%

# 105

Cambodia:

0.83%

# 106

Cote d'Ivoire:

0.8%

= 107

Benin:

0.79%

= 107

Oman:

0.79%

# 109

Turkmenistan:

0.78%

# 110

Burundi:

0.77%

# 111

Venezuela:

0.75%

# 112

Kazakhstan:

0.7%

# 113

Burkina Faso:

0.63%

# 114

Tanzania:

0.62%

# 115

Paraguay:

0.54%

# 116

Peru:

0.53%

# 117

Zambia:

0.51%

# 118

Algeria:

0.5%

# 119

Australia:

0.48%

# 120

Saudi Arabia:

0.43%

# 121

Ethiopia:

0.31%

# 122

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

0.25%

# 123

Angola:

0.22%

# 124

Central African Republic:

0.21%

= 125

Papua New Guinea:

0.19%

= 125

Sudan:

0.19%

= 125

Bolivia:

0.19%

= 128

Rwanda:

0.18%

= 128

Mali:

0.18%

= 130

Botswana:

0.15%

= 130

Gabon:

0.15%

= 130

Iceland:

0.15%

# 133

Libya:

0.12%

# 134

Somalia:

0.07%

# 135

Bhutan:

0.06%

# 136

Namibia:

0.04%

= 137

Niger:

0.03%

= 137

Mauritania:

0.03%

# 139

Mongolia:

0.02%

= 140

Chad:

0.01%

= 140

Laos:

0.01%

Weighted average:

7.3%

DEFINITION: Percent of land area having very high 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.

SOURCE: Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the last wild places on the earth's surface. Accessed via ciesin.org

Environment Statistics > Non-wildness (most recent) by country

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