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Europe > Estonia > Environment

ESTONIAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0% [54th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 1.16 % of GNI Time series [26th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 0.23 % of GNI Time series [38th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.03 % of GNI Time series [152nd of 165]
Areas under protection 219 [29th of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 164.291 per 1 million people [8th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 1,560 thousand hectares [27th of 86]
    Biosphere reserves area (per capita) 1,170.29 thousand hectares per 1 [4th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 1.41% [98th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 3.89 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [10th of 141]
CFC consumption 3,385.93 [49th of 107]
    CFC consumption (per capita) 2.54008 per 1,000 people [24th of 107]
CO2 Emissions 14,883.9 [78th of 178]
    CO2 Emissions (per capita) 11.1657 per 1,000 people [14th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 1.1 kg/PPP$ Time series [13th of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 18,227.09 kt Time series [81st of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 13.466 kt per 1,000 people Time series [16th of 196]
Current issues
air polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast; however, the amount of pollutants emitted to the air have fallen steadily, the emissions of 2000 were 80% less than in 1980; the amount of unpurified wastewater discharged to water bodies in 2000 was one-20th the level of 1980; in connection with the start-up of new water purification plants, the pollution load of wastewater decreased; Estonia has more than 1,400 natural and manmade lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas need to be monitored; coastal seawater is polluted in certain locations
Ecological footprint 7.12 [12th of 141]
Endangered species protection 85.7% [44th of 141]
Environmental agreement compliance 5.42 [17th of 70]
Fertiliser consumption 289.26 hundred grams/hectare [92nd of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 53.88 % of land area Time series [34th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 22,840 km² Time series [99th of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 16,967.536 km² per 1,000 people Time series [34th of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 1.41 Time series [9th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 5% Time series [9th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 56% Time series [1st of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 39% Time series [5th of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 0 [101st of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements
Known breeding bird species 204 [76th of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 153.038 per 1 million people [8th of 146]
Known mammal species 65 [124th of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 48.7622 per 1 million people [17th of 145]
Marine areas under protection 3 [63rd of 95]
    Marine areas under protection (per capita) 2.25056 per 1 million people [15th of 95]
Marine fish catch 95,315 tons [58th of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 71.5041 tons per 1,000 people [9th of 141]
Non-wildness 13.63% [31st of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.09 thousand metric tons/squ [125th of 141]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 15.52 mcg/m³ Time series [167th of 185]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 4,409 [79th of 199]
Protected area 12 [31st of 147]
Red Kite > Populations and trends > Pairs <1
Red Kite > Populations and trends > Year 1989
SO2 emissions per populated area 580 thousand metric tons/squ [70th of 141]
SO2 exports 496 hundred metric tons [108th of 141]
Threatened species 10 [131st of 158]
Threatened species > Mammal 4 [131st of 160]
Total renewable water resources 21.1 cu km Time series [20th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 49.62 micrograms/m3 [73rd of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 37.09 micrograms/m3 [84th of 141]
Water > Availability 7.4 thousand cubic metres [46th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 11.15 mls/litre [3rd of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.11 mls/litre [116th of 141]
Water > Salinisation 219.48 [121st of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 0.3 [90th of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 7.97 mls/litre [6th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 216 thousand hectares [47th of 112]
    Wetlands of intl importance > Area (per capita) 162.041 thousand hectares per 1 m [14th of 112]
Wildness 2.86% [73rd 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; Michael E. Porter et al, The Global Competitveness Report 2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. via ciesin.org; 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; Wikipedia: Red Kite ; 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; 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: Estonia, Republic of Estonia, Eesti Vabariik, Eesti

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