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Africa > Somalia > Environment

SOMALI ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Acidification 0% [57th of 141]
Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage > % of GNI 0.01 % of GNI Time series [155th of 179]
Adjusted savings: net forest depletion > % of GNI 0.16 % of GNI Time series [40th of 57]
Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage > % of GNI 0.78 % of GNI Time series [42nd of 165]
Areas under protection 10 [113rd of 146]
    Areas under protection (per capita) 1.16387 per 1 million people [102nd of 146]
Breeding birds threatened 2.37% [70th of 136]
Carbon efficiency 0 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [140th of 141]
CO2 emissions > kt 10.99 kt Time series [195th of 195]
    CO2 emissions > kt (per capita) 1.741 kt per 1,000 people Time series [195th of 196]
Current issues
famine; use of contaminated water contributes to human health problems; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Ecological footprint 0.97 [114th of 141]
Endangered species protection 7.7% [108th of 141]
Fertiliser consumption 4.81 hundred grams/hectare [135th of 141]
Forest area > % of land area 11.37 % of land area Time series [144th of 195]
Forest area > sq. km 71,310 km² Time series [64th of 195]
    Forest area > sq. km (per capita) 8,666.931 km² per 1,000 people Time series [52nd of 195]
Freshwater withdrawal 3.29 Time series [55th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Agricultural 100% Time series [1st of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Domestic 0% Time series [124th of 124]
Freshwater withdrawal > Industrial 0% Time series [117th of 124]
Groundwater withdrawals 45.8 [70th of 188]
International agreements > Party to
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
Known breeding bird species 179 [97th of 146]
    Known breeding bird species (per capita) 20.8333 per 1 million people [71st of 146]
Known mammal species 171 [57th of 145]
    Known mammal species (per capita) 19.9022 per 1 million people [44th of 145]
Marine areas under protection 1 [88th of 95]
    Marine areas under protection (per capita) 0.116387 per 1 million people [80th of 95]
Marine fish catch 19,100 tons [80th of 141]
    Marine fish catch (per capita) 2.223 tons per 1,000 people [78th of 141]
Non-wildness 0.07% [134th of 141]
NOx emissions per populated area 0.05 thousand metric tons/squ [136th of 141]
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day 6,177.2 kg/day Time series [86th of 115]
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions > kg per day per worker 0.38 kg per day per worker Time series [1st of 115]
PM10, country level > micrograms per cubic meter 41.3 mcg/m³ Time series [86th of 185]
Protected area 0.3 [135th of 147]
SO2 emissions per populated area 60 thousand metric tons/squ [136th of 141]
SO2 exports 1,243.2 hundred metric tons [74th of 141]
Threatened species > Mammal 18 [38th of 160]
Total renewable water resources 15.7 cu km Time series [16th of 31]
Urban NO2 concentration 37.88 micrograms/m3 [107th of 141]
Urban SO2 concentration 137.61 micrograms/m3 [8th of 141]
Water > Availability 0.24 thousand cubic metres [126th of 141]
Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration 7.83 mls/litre [68th of 141]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.35 mls/litre [63rd of 141]
Water > Salinisation 739.68 [57th of 141]
Water > Severe water stress 26.9 [44th of 140]
Water > Suspended solids 6.88 mls/litre [20th of 141]
Water pollution, chemical industry > % of total BOD emissions 1.53 % Time series [102nd of 114]
Water pollution, clay and glass industry > % of total BOD emissions 0.05 % Time series [99th of 112]
Water pollution, food industry > % of total BOD emissions 89.92 % Time series [2nd of 114]
Water pollution, metal industry > % of total BOD emissions 0.84 % Time series [81st of 94]
Water pollution, other industry > % of total BOD emissions 0.16 % Time series [101st of 107]
Water pollution, paper and pulp industry > % of total BOD emissions 4.5 % Time series [94th of 111]
Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions 2.7 % Time series [97th of 114]
Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions 0.3 % Time series [104th of 114]
Wildness 17.7% [48th 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; 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; 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

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