Water salinisation by country. Definition, graph and map.

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
Electrical conductivity
Units: Micro-Siemens/Centimeter
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 water bodies; and level of participation in the GEMS monitoring system.

Environment Statistics > Water > Salinisation (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

India:

4,520.19

# 2

Morocco:

3,300.63

# 3

Nepal:

2,722.27

# 4

Belgium:

2,626.19

# 5

Kuwait:

2,493.15

# 6

Iraq:

2,454.88

# 7

Tajikistan:

2,442.78

# 8

Turkmenistan:

2,438.25

# 9

Greece:

2,259.13

# 10

Israel:

2,149.96

# 11

United Arab Emirates:

2,087.05

# 12

Saudi Arabia:

2,057.25

# 13

Egypt:

1,977.91

# 14

Armenia:

1,953.96

# 15

Kyrgyzstan:

1,938.57

# 16

Libya:

1,858.24

# 17

Bulgaria:

1,743.52

# 18

Lebanon:

1,696.86

# 19

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

1,619.25

# 20

Trinidad and Tobago:

1,614.88

# 21

Syria:

1,608.99

# 22

Germany:

1,566.07

# 23

Algeria:

1,478.73

# 24

Azerbaijan:

1,473.98

# 25

Benin:

1,378.26

# 26

Costa Rica:

1,359.25

# 27

South Africa:

1,312.26

# 28

Peru:

1,297.18

# 29

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

1,248.06

# 30

Central African Republic:

1,242.78

# 31

Mexico:

1,239.62

# 32

Uganda:

1,195.79

# 33

Nigeria:

1,157.79

# 34

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

1,153.53

# 35

Belarus:

1,124.68

# 36

Turkey:

1,105.28

# 37

Burkina Faso:

1,074.82

# 38

Guinea-Bissau:

1,071.4

# 39

Tunisia:

1,064.77

# 40

Guatemala:

1,061.16

# 41

Poland:

1,043.77

# 42

Uzbekistan:

1,031.99

# 43

Jordan:

1,014.42

# 44

Jamaica:

998.46

# 45

Spain:

927.14

# 46

Slovakia:

918.85

# 47

Italy:

915.42

# 48

Slovenia:

908.82

# 49

Mozambique:

894.71

# 50

Liberia:

891.54

# 51

Ethiopia:

871.56

# 52

Oman:

853.45

# 53

Kazakhstan:

823.68

# 54

Austria:

811.6

# 55

Gabon:

777.5

# 56

Mauritania:

756.33

# 57

Somalia:

739.68

# 58

Sri Lanka:

731.02

# 59

Korea, North:

727.1

# 60

Ireland:

723.43

# 61

Guinea:

716.05

# 62

Haiti:

713.29

# 63

Croatia:

700.79

# 64

Zimbabwe:

700.63

# 65

Chile:

667.94

# 66

Australia:

655.39

# 67

Cambodia:

648.36

# 68

Netherlands:

623.12

# 69

Vietnam:

609.69

# 70

Rwanda:

609.09

# 71

Lithuania:

598.75

# 72

Burma:

594.19

# 73

Czech Republic:

592.77

# 74

El Salvador:

582.63

# 75

Hungary:

579.26

# 76

Botswana:

575.51

# 77

Ukraine:

557.81

# 78

Mongolia:

531.94

# 79

China:

522.78

# 80

Cuba:

515

# 81

Papua New Guinea:

510.96

# 82

Malaysia:

508.01

# 83

Kenya:

504

# 84

Cameroon:

493.57

# 85

Paraguay:

455.6

# 86

Uruguay:

446.24

# 87

Romania:

438.87

# 88

Nicaragua:

438.42

# 89

Madagascar:

436.49

# 90

Namibia:

435.61

# 91

Denmark:

422.19

# 92

Iran:

419.64

# 93

Bolivia:

416.7

# 94

Pakistan:

410.13

# 95

Honduras:

388.43

# 96

Cote d'Ivoire:

387.14

# 97

Senegal:

380.8

# 98

United States:

375.65

# 99

Latvia:

371.55

# 100

Chad:

368.95

# 101

United Kingdom:

368.06

# 102

Tanzania:

363.21

# 103

Sierra Leone:

350.5

# 104

Thailand:

348.33

# 105

Dominica:

326.71

# 106

Bhutan:

315.59

# 107

Malawi:

311.31

# 108

Iceland:

304.23

# 109

Switzerland:

301.06

# 110

France:

299.38

# 111

Angola:

291.46

# 112

Gambia, The:

283.18

# 113

Moldova:

260.18

# 114

Sudan:

259.33

# 115

Panama:

248.78

# 116

Niger:

247.69

# 117

Laos:

239.07

# 118

Burundi:

237.91

# 119

Canada:

237.44

# 120

Bangladesh:

231.6

# 121

Estonia:

219.48

# 122

Portugal:

191.13

# 123

Ghana:

185.59

# 124

Japan:

179.29

# 125

Venezuela:

175.58

# 126

Indonesia:

167.13

# 127

Brazil:

145.65

# 128

Korea, South:

141.33

# 129

Philippines:

136.7

# 130

Togo:

136.55

# 131

Zambia:

130.62

# 132

Ecuador:

129.35

# 133

New Zealand:

125.84

# 134

Mali:

120.77

# 135

Argentina:

113.68

# 136

Albania:

112.94

# 137

Colombia:

85.8

# 138

Sweden:

77.56

# 139

Finland:

50.49

# 140

Norway:

0.61

# 141

Russia:

Weighted average:

836.1

DEFINITION: Electrical conductivity
Units: Micro-Siemens/Centimeter
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 water bodies; and level of participation in the GEMS monitoring system.

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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