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Southeast Asia > Burma > Environment

BURMESE ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0.77% [42nd of 141]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.59 % of GNI Time series [57th of 165]
Areas under protection 4 [134th of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 0.0851118 per 1 million people [142nd of 146]
Biodiversity richness 2 [30th of 53]
Breeding birds threatened 4.04% [46th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.42 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [113rd of 141]
CFC consumption 61.54 [88th of 107]
    CFC consumption (per capita) 0.00130945 per 1,000 people [94th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 8,875.7 [89th of 178]
    CO2 Emissions (per capita) 0.188857 per 1,000 people [147th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kt 9,450.54 kt Time series [93rd of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 0.191 kt per 1,000 people Time series [170th of 196]
Current issues
deforestation; industrial pollution of air, soil, and water; inadequate sanitation and water treatment contribute to disease
Ecological footprint 1.07 [107th of 141]
Endangered species protection 0% [117th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 179.94 hundred grams/hectare [100th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 49 % of land area Time series [41st of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 322,220 km² Time series [20th of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 6,378.132 km² per 1,000 people Time series [66th of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 33.23 Time series [20th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 98% Time series [4th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 1% Time series [122nd of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 1% Time series [115th of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 0 [122nd of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements
Known breeding bird species 310 [19th of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 6.59617 per 1 million people [114th of 146]
Known mammal species 300 [16th of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 6.38339 per 1 million people [100th of 145]
Marine areas under protection 1 [93rd of 95]
    Marine areas under protection (per capita) 0.021278 per 1 million people [92nd of 95]
Marine fish catch 695,904 tons [20th of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 14.8074 tons per 1,000 people [35th of 141]
Non-wildness 1.73% [87th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.19 thousand metric tons/squ [88th of 141]
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day 6,159.3 kg/day Time series [46th of 115]
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day per worker 0.18 kg per day per worker Time series [26th of 115]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 68.8 mcg/m³ Time series [39th of 185]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 2,511 [91st of 199]
Protected area 0.3 [139th of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area 90 thousand metric tons/squ [126th of 141]
SO2 exports 23.6 hundred metric tons [138th of 141]
Threatened species 98 [18th of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 31 [22nd of 160]
Total renewable water resources 1,045.6 cu km Time series [5th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 65.36 micrograms/m3 [31st of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 135.07 micrograms/m3 [10th of 141]
Water > Availability 20.06 thousand cubic metres [27th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 4.83 mls/litre [132nd of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 0 tons/cubic km [69th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.31 mls/litre [80th of 141]
Water > Salinisation 594.19 [72nd of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 0 [102nd of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 6.41 mls/litre [27th of 141]
Water pollution, chemical industry > % of total BOD emissions 13.24 % Time series [10th of 114]
Water pollution, clay and glass industry > % of total BOD emissions 0.4 % Time series [9th of 112]
Water pollution, food industry > % of total BOD emissions 14.94 % Time series [50th of 114]
Water pollution, metal industry > % of total BOD emissions 56.46 % Time series [1st of 94]
Water pollution, other industry > % of total BOD emissions 5.76 % Time series [23rd of 107]
Water pollution, paper and pulp industry > % of total BOD emissions 4.6 % Time series [52nd of 111]
Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions 2.94 % Time series [47th of 114]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions 1.66 % Time series [37th of 114]
Wildness 15.66% [54th of 141]

SOURCES: Stockholm Environment Institute at York, Acidification in Developing Countries: Ecosystem Sensitivity and the Critical Loads Approach at the Global scale, 2000 via ciesin.org; World Development Indicators database; World Resources Institute; ; 2000 IUCN Red List, and World Resources Institute,World Resources 2000-2001, Washington, DC: WRI, 2000. Original sources: World Conservation Monitoring Center, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; UNEP, Production and Consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances, 1986-1998, October 1999. via ciesin.org; 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. via ciesin.org; FAOSTAT on-line database; 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; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; Jacaranda Atlas; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, RAINS-ASIA and Co-operative Programme formonitoring and evaluation of the long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe (EMEP) via ciesin.org; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Resources Institute, World Resources 1998-99; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2000; WHO,Air Management Information System-AMIS 2.0, 1998; and Global Urban Observatory, Citibase, 1999. via ciesin.org; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; 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; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 via ciesin.org; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar

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