Phosphorus Concentration > Water statistics - countries compared

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

DEFINITION
Phosphorus concentration
Units: Milligrams/Liter
Units: The country values represent averages of the station-level values for the three year time period 1994-96, except where 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.

Environment Statistics > Water > Phosphorus concentration (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Sudan:

1.75 mls/litre

# 2

Belgium:

1.63 mls/litre

# 3

Korea, South:

1.13 mls/litre

= 4

Jordan:

1.01 mls/litre

= 4

Jamaica:

1.01 mls/litre

# 6

Tajikistan:

0.96 mls/litre

# 7

Guinea-Bissau:

0.82 mls/litre

# 8

Korea, North:

0.81 mls/litre

# 9

South Africa:

0.73 mls/litre

# 10

Niger:

0.69 mls/litre

# 11

Burundi:

0.68 mls/litre

# 12

Benin:

0.67 mls/litre

= 13

Kuwait:

0.66 mls/litre

= 13

Nigeria:

0.66 mls/litre

# 15

Mexico:

0.64 mls/litre

# 16

Nicaragua:

0.61 mls/litre

= 17

Azerbaijan:

0.6 mls/litre

= 17

Egypt:

0.6 mls/litre

# 19

Vietnam:

0.59 mls/litre

# 20

Kenya:

0.58 mls/litre

# 21

Angola:

0.57 mls/litre

= 22

Indonesia:

0.56 mls/litre

= 22

Zambia:

0.56 mls/litre

# 24

Gambia, The:

0.53 mls/litre

# 25

Malawi:

0.52 mls/litre

= 26

Bangladesh:

0.51 mls/litre

= 26

Chile:

0.51 mls/litre

= 26

Uzbekistan:

0.51 mls/litre

= 29

Croatia:

0.5 mls/litre

= 29

Spain:

0.5 mls/litre

= 29

Cameroon:

0.5 mls/litre

= 32

Rwanda:

0.49 mls/litre

= 32

Guinea:

0.49 mls/litre

= 32

Mozambique:

0.49 mls/litre

= 32

Liberia:

0.49 mls/litre

= 36

Armenia:

0.48 mls/litre

= 36

Turkmenistan:

0.48 mls/litre

= 36

Mauritania:

0.48 mls/litre

= 39

Libya:

0.47 mls/litre

= 39

Kazakhstan:

0.47 mls/litre

= 41

Venezuela:

0.45 mls/litre

= 41

Laos:

0.45 mls/litre

= 41

Madagascar:

0.45 mls/litre

# 44

United Arab Emirates:

0.44 mls/litre

# 45

Cambodia:

0.43 mls/litre

= 46

Israel:

0.42 mls/litre

= 46

Nepal:

0.42 mls/litre

# 48

Guatemala:

0.41 mls/litre

= 49

Algeria:

0.4 mls/litre

= 49

Honduras:

0.4 mls/litre

= 49

Romania:

0.4 mls/litre

= 52

Bulgaria:

0.39 mls/litre

= 52

Tunisia:

0.39 mls/litre

= 54

Ethiopia:

0.38 mls/litre

= 54

Lebanon:

0.38 mls/litre

= 54

Burkina Faso:

0.38 mls/litre

# 57

Panama:

0.37 mls/litre

= 58

Chad:

0.36 mls/litre

= 58

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

0.36 mls/litre

= 58

Belarus:

0.36 mls/litre

= 58

Colombia:

0.36 mls/litre

= 58

Sierra Leone:

0.36 mls/litre

= 63

Central African Republic:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Somalia:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Iceland:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Philippines:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Namibia:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Turkey:

0.35 mls/litre

= 63

Iran:

0.35 mls/litre

= 70

Haiti:

0.34 mls/litre

= 70

Bolivia:

0.34 mls/litre

= 70

Senegal:

0.34 mls/litre

= 70

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

0.34 mls/litre

= 70

Costa Rica:

0.34 mls/litre

= 75

Poland:

0.33 mls/litre

= 75

Togo:

0.33 mls/litre

= 77

Germany:

0.32 mls/litre

= 77

Tanzania:

0.32 mls/litre

= 79

Thailand:

0.31 mls/litre

= 79

Greece:

0.31 mls/litre

= 79

Burma:

0.31 mls/litre

= 79

Uruguay:

0.31 mls/litre

= 83

Peru:

0.29 mls/litre

= 83

Gabon:

0.29 mls/litre

= 83

Czech Republic:

0.29 mls/litre

= 86

China:

0.28 mls/litre

= 86

Sweden:

0.28 mls/litre

# 88

Netherlands:

0.27 mls/litre

# 89

Morocco:

0.26 mls/litre

# 90

Ecuador:

0.25 mls/litre

= 91

Ukraine:

0.23 mls/litre

= 91

Kyrgyzstan:

0.23 mls/litre

= 93

Slovakia:

0.22 mls/litre

= 93

El Salvador:

0.22 mls/litre

= 95

Syria:

0.21 mls/litre

= 95

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

0.21 mls/litre

= 95

Hungary:

0.21 mls/litre

= 98

Botswana:

0.2 mls/litre

= 98

Moldova:

0.2 mls/litre

= 98

Pakistan:

0.2 mls/litre

= 98

Oman:

0.2 mls/litre

# 102

Dominica:

0.19 mls/litre

# 103

Paraguay:

0.18 mls/litre

= 104

Mongolia:

0.17 mls/litre

= 104

France:

0.17 mls/litre

# 106

Uganda:

0.16 mls/litre

= 107

India:

0.15 mls/litre

= 107

Mali:

0.15 mls/litre

= 109

Cote d'Ivoire:

0.14 mls/litre

= 109

Russia:

0.14 mls/litre

= 109

Denmark:

0.14 mls/litre

= 112

Portugal:

0.13 mls/litre

= 112

Bhutan:

0.13 mls/litre

= 112

Italy:

0.13 mls/litre

= 112

Ghana:

0.13 mls/litre

= 116

Ireland:

0.11 mls/litre

= 116

Saudi Arabia:

0.11 mls/litre

= 116

Papua New Guinea:

0.11 mls/litre

= 116

Estonia:

0.11 mls/litre

= 120

Slovenia:

0.1 mls/litre

= 120

Sri Lanka:

0.1 mls/litre

= 120

Austria:

0.1 mls/litre

= 120

Latvia:

0.1 mls/litre

= 124

Brazil:

0.09 mls/litre

= 124

Zimbabwe:

0.09 mls/litre

= 124

United Kingdom:

0.09 mls/litre

= 127

Lithuania:

0.08 mls/litre

= 127

Trinidad and Tobago:

0.08 mls/litre

= 127

United States:

0.08 mls/litre

# 130

Switzerland:

0.07 mls/litre

= 131

Australia:

0.06 mls/litre

= 131

Japan:

0.06 mls/litre

= 133

Argentina:

0.04 mls/litre

= 133

New Zealand:

0.04 mls/litre

= 133

Malaysia:

0.04 mls/litre

= 136

Norway:

0.01 mls/litre

= 136

Finland:

0.01 mls/litre

= 136

Cuba:

0.01 mls/litre

= 136

Iraq:

0.01 mls/litre

= 140

Albania:

0 mls/litre

= 140

Canada:

0 mls/litre

Weighted average:

0.4 mls/litre

DEFINITION: Phosphorus concentration
Units: Milligrams/Liter
Units: The country values represent averages of the station-level values for the three year time period 1994-96, except where 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.

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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