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Africa > Guinea-Bissau > Environment

GUINEAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0% [49th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.62 % of GNI Time series [50th of 179]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 1 % of GNI Time series [28th of 165]
Areas under protection 0 [145th of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 0 per 1 million people [144th of 146]
Biosphere reserves area 110 thousand hectares [68th of 86]
    Biosphere reserves area (per capita) 77.8485 thousand hectares per 1 [30th of 86]
Breeding birds threatened 0% [132nd of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0.86 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [90th of 141]
CFC consumption 240.81 [74th of 107]
    CFC consumption (per capita) 0.170425 per 1,000 people [51st of 107]
CO2 Emissions 286.2 [157th of 178]
    CO2 Emissions (per capita) 0.202548 per 1,000 people [145th of 176]
CO2 emissions > kg per 2000 PPP $ of GDP 0.27 kg/PPP$ Time series [101st of 170]
CO2 emissions > kt 271.06 kt Time series [177th of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 0.181 kt per 1,000 people Time series [172nd of 196]
CPIA policy and institutions for environmental sustainability rating 3 Time series [37th of 75]
Current issues
deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; overfishing
Ecological footprint 0.8 [133rd of 141]
Endangered species protection 55.6% [84th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 20 hundred grams/hectare [129th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 73.68 % of land area Time series [10th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 20,720 km² Time series [105th of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 13,061.48 km² per 1,000 people Time series [39th of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 0.18 Time series [109th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 82% Time series [47th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 13% Time series [67th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 5% Time series [63rd of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 0 [89th of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
International agreements > Signed but not ratified
none of the selected agreements
Known breeding bird species 235 [52nd of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 166.313 per 1 million people [7th of 146]
Known mammal species 108 [78th of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 76.4331 per 1 million people [10th of 145]
Marine fish catch 3,867 tons [96th of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 2.73673 tons per 1,000 people [72nd of 141]
Non-wildness 3.37% [69th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.13 thousand metric tons/squ [113rd of 141]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 78.09 mcg/m³ Time series [30th of 185]
Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999 71 [171st of 199]
SO2 emissions per populated area 190 thousand metric tons/squ [98th of 141]
SO2 exports 1,765.55 hundred metric tons [49th of 141]
Threatened species > Mammal 4 [130th of 160]
Total renewable water resources 31 cu km Time series [15th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 60.83 micrograms/m3 [43rd of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 119.06 micrograms/m3 [14th of 141]
Water > Availability 19.15 thousand cubic metres [29th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 5.75 mls/litre [123rd of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.82 mls/litre [7th of 141]
Water > Salinisation 1,071.4 [38th of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 0 [93rd of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 7.17 mls/litre [16th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 39 thousand hectares [86th of 112]
    Wetlands of intl importance > Area (per capita) 27.6008 thousand hectares per 1 m [33rd of 112]
Wildness 0.65% [91st 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; 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; Jacaranda Atlas; 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-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Republica da Guine-Bissau, Guine-Bissau

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