Wildness by country. Definition, graph and map.

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

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.

Environment Statistics > Wildness (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Libya:

89.9%

# 2

Canada:

81.87%

# 3

Algeria:

80.82%

# 4

Iceland:

80.08%

# 5

Mauritania:

79.46%

# 6

Australia:

74%

# 7

Niger:

73.54%

# 8

Gabon:

72.79%

# 9

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

71.62%

# 10

Egypt:

70.06%

# 11

Mongolia:

69.99%

# 12

Botswana:

67.41%

# 13

Namibia:

66.23%

# 14

Russia:

65.8%

# 15

Bolivia:

60.93%

# 16

Mali:

59.81%

# 17

Chad:

59.45%

# 18

Oman:

53.97%

# 19

Central African Republic:

51.5%

# 20

Venezuela:

50.77%

# 21

Brazil:

50.41%

# 22

Colombia:

48.26%

# 23

Peru:

45.56%

# 24

Saudi Arabia:

44.34%

# 25

Paraguay:

44.12%

# 26

Angola:

43.63%

# 27

Sudan:

41.36%

# 28

Chile:

40.46%

# 29

Kazakhstan:

39.45%

# 30

Kenya:

39.01%

# 31

Argentina:

35.99%

# 32

United States:

35.89%

# 33

Papua New Guinea:

35.28%

# 34

Uzbekistan:

34.4%

# 35

New Zealand:

31.51%

# 36

China:

31.49%

# 37

Sweden:

31.41%

# 38

Finland:

30.04%

# 39

Norway:

28.71%

# 40

Malaysia:

27.45%

# 41

Tunisia:

26.2%

# 42

Tajikistan:

25.63%

# 43

Ecuador:

24.93%

# 44

Zambia:

23.98%

# 45

Turkmenistan:

22.28%

# 46

Mozambique:

21.79%

# 47

South Africa:

19.78%

# 48

Somalia:

17.7%

# 49

Mexico:

17.65%

# 50

Morocco:

17.54%

# 51

Madagascar:

17.48%

# 52

Malawi:

16.1%

# 53

Indonesia:

15.95%

# 54

Burma:

15.66%

# 55

Guatemala:

15.1%

# 56

Kyrgyzstan:

14.97%

# 57

Ethiopia:

14.91%

# 58

Panama:

14.83%

# 59

Nicaragua:

12.9%

# 60

Uganda:

12.55%

# 61

Cambodia:

12.16%

# 62

Honduras:

10.65%

# 63

Cameroon:

10.46%

# 64

Tanzania:

9.3%

# 65

Liberia:

8.96%

# 66

Laos:

6.21%

# 67

Burundi:

5.13%

# 68

Cote d'Ivoire:

4.38%

# 69

Senegal:

4.13%

# 70

Iraq:

3.68%

# 71

Spain:

3.43%

# 72

Benin:

3.08%

# 73

Estonia:

2.86%

# 74

Nepal:

2.62%

# 75

Iran:

2.53%

# 76

Pakistan:

2.51%

# 77

Armenia:

2.5%

# 78

Switzerland:

2.43%

# 79

Rwanda:

2.42%

# 80

Uruguay:

2.39%

# 81

Jordan:

2.08%

# 82

India:

1.94%

# 83

Burkina Faso:

1.81%

# 84

Bhutan:

1.76%

# 85

Vietnam:

1.05%

# 86

Zimbabwe:

1.04%

# 87

Cuba:

0.91%

# 88

Thailand:

0.9%

# 89

Portugal:

0.78%

# 90

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

0.7%

# 91

Guinea-Bissau:

0.65%

# 92

Turkey:

0.64%

# 93

Israel:

0.61%

# 94

Ghana:

0.58%

# 95

Nigeria:

0.55%

# 96

Philippines:

0.52%

# 97

Albania:

0.32%

# 98

Azerbaijan:

0.28%

# 99

United Kingdom:

0.21%

# 100

United Arab Emirates:

0.16%

= 101

Kuwait:

0.11%

= 101

Syria:

0.11%

# 103

Hungary:

0.07%

= 104

Bangladesh:

0.06%

= 104

Japan:

0.06%

= 106

Italy:

0.04%

= 106

France:

0.04%

= 106

Austria:

0.04%

= 109

Latvia:

0.02%

= 109

Germany:

0.02%

= 109

Costa Rica:

0.02%

= 109

Guinea:

0.02%

= 113

Dominica:

0.01%

= 113

Ireland:

0.01%

= 113

Greece:

0.01%

= 116

Sierra Leone:

= 116

Croatia:

= 116

Netherlands:

= 116

Korea, North:

= 116

Slovakia:

= 116

Lebanon:

= 116

Romania:

= 116

Belgium:

= 116

Togo:

= 116

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

= 116

Belarus:

= 116

Jamaica:

= 116

Bulgaria:

= 116

Korea, South:

= 116

Sri Lanka:

= 116

Lithuania:

= 116

Denmark:

= 116

Moldova:

= 116

El Salvador:

= 116

Poland:

= 116

Czech Republic:

= 116

Slovenia:

= 116

Gambia, The:

= 116

Trinidad and Tobago:

= 116

Haiti:

= 116

Ukraine:

Weighted average:

18.6%

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.

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

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