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| GUINEAN ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Acidification
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0% |
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[95th of 141]
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI
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0.3 % of GNI
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[103rd of 179]
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI
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2.02 % of GNI
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[10th of 57]
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Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI
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0.3 % of GNI
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[93rd of 165]
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Areas under protection
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3 |
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[137th of 146]
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Areas under protection (per capita)
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0.31736 per 1 million people |
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[137th of 146]
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Biodiversity richness
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1 |
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[42nd of 53]
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Biosphere reserves area
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261 thousand hectares |
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[54th of 86]
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Biosphere reserves area (per capita)
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27.6103 thousand hectares per 1 |
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[48th of 86]
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Breeding birds threatened
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2.44% |
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[69th of 136]
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Carbon efficiency
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0.25 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[129th of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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1,336.3 |
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[133rd of 178]
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CO2 Emissions (per capita)
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0.141363 per 1,000 people |
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[154th of 176]
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CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP
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0.07 kg/PPP$
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[152nd of 170]
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CO2 emissions > kt
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1,336.99 kt
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[147th of 195]
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CO2 emissions > kt (per capita)
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0.149 kt
per 1,000 people |
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[175th of 196]
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CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating
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2.5
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[64th of 75]
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Current issues
deforestation; inadequate supplies of potable water; desertification; soil contamination and erosion; overfishing, overpopulation in forest region; poor mining practices have led to environmental damage |
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Ecological footprint
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0.85 |
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[129th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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0% |
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[124th of 141]
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Fertiliser consumption
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37.11 hundred grams/hectare |
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[124th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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27.36 % of land area
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[107th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km
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67,240 km²
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[66th of 195]
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Forest area > sq. km (per capita)
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7,151.595 km²
per 1,000 people |
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[62nd of 195]
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Freshwater withdrawal
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1.51 |
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[73rd of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural
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90% |
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[31st of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic
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8% |
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[81st of 124]
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Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial
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2% |
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[86th of 124]
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Groundwater withdrawals
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0 |
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[140th of 188]
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International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling |
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements |
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Known breeding bird species
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109 |
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[138th of 146]
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Known breeding bird species (per capita)
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11.5307 per 1 million people |
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[93rd of 146]
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Known mammal species
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190 |
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[45th of 145]
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Known mammal species (per capita)
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20.0994 per 1 million people |
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[43rd of 145]
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Marine fish catch
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81,618 tons |
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[61st of 141]
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Marine fish catch (per capita)
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8.63408 tons per 1,000 people |
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[47th of 141]
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Non-wildness
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1.18% |
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[96th of 141]
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NOx emissions per populated area
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0.08 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[129th of 141]
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PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter
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70.63 mcg/m³
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[38th of 185]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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345 |
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[142nd of 199]
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Protected area
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0.7 |
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[130th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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70 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[135th of 141]
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SO2 exports
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364.11 hundred metric tons |
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[117th of 141]
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Threatened species > Mammal
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11 |
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[73rd of 160]
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Total renewable water resources
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226 cu km |
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[4th of 31]
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Urban NO2 concentration
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69.79 micrograms/m3 |
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[20th of 141]
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Urban SO2 concentration
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93.84 micrograms/m3 |
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[30th of 141]
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Water > Availability
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10.13 thousand cubic metres |
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[40th of 141]
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration
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6.51 mls/litre |
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[103rd of 141]
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Water > Phosphorus concentration
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0.49 mls/litre |
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[33rd of 141]
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Water > Salinisation
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716.05 |
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[61st of 141]
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Water > Severe water stress
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0 |
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[111st of 140]
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Water > Suspended solids
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4.09 mls/litre |
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[99th of 141]
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Wetlands of intl importance > Area
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4,779 thousand hectares |
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[8th of 112]
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Wetlands of intl importance > Area (per capita)
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505.554 thousand hectares per 1 m |
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[4th of 112]
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Wildness
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0.02% |
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[111st of 141]
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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; 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; 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:
Guinea, Republic of Guinea, Republique de Guinee, Guinee
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