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Environment Statistics > Ecological footprint (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   United Arab Emirates: 15.99 
# 2   United States: 12.22 
# 3   Kuwait: 10.31 
# 4   Denmark: 9.88 
# 5   New Zealand: 9.54 
# 6   Ireland: 9.43 
# 7   Australia: 8.49 
# 8   Finland: 8.45 
# 9   Canada: 7.66 
# 10   Sweden: 7.53 
# 11   France: 7.27 
# 12   Estonia: 7.12 
# 13   Switzerland: 6.63 
# 14   Germany: 6.31 
# 15   Czech Republic: 6.3 
# 16   United Kingdom: 6.29 
# 17   Saudi Arabia: 6.15 
# 18   Norway: 6.13 
# 19   Iceland: 6.02 
# 20   Japan: 5.94 
# 21   Belgium: 5.88 
# 22   Netherlands: 5.75 
# 23   Korea, South: 5.6 
# 24   Greece: 5.58 
# 25   Italy: 5.51 
# 26   Spain: 5.5 
# 27   Austria: 5.45 
= 28   Israel: 5.4 
= 28   Poland: 5.4 
= 28   Slovenia: 5.4 
# 31   Russia: 5.36 
# 32   Belarus: 5.27 
# 33   Hungary: 5.01 
# 34   Portugal: 4.99 
# 35   Uruguay: 4.91 
= 36   Lithuania: 4.76 
= 36   Ukraine: 4.76 
# 38   Kazakhstan: 4.45 
# 39   Libya: 4.36 
# 40   Mongolia: 4.3 
# 41   South Africa: 4.04 
# 42   Slovakia: 3.94 
# 43   Bulgaria: 3.81 
# 44   Argentina: 3.79 
# 45   Latvia: 3.74 
# 46   Malaysia: 3.68 
# 47   Turkmenistan: 3.62 
# 48   Romania: 3.49 
= 49   Chile: 3.39 
= 49   Oman: 3.39 
# 51   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 3.24 
# 52   Lebanon: 3.19 
# 53   Venezuela: 2.88 
# 54   Paraguay: 2.84 
# 55   Costa Rica: 2.77 
# 56   Turkey: 2.73 
# 57   Thailand: 2.7 
# 58   Mexico: 2.69 
# 59   Jamaica: 2.68 
# 60   Uzbekistan: 2.65 
# 61   Brazil: 2.6 
# 62   Syria: 2.56 
= 63   Moldova: 2.47 
= 63   Iran: 2.47 
# 65   Trinidad and Tobago: 2.43 
= 66   Panama: 2.35 
= 66   Croatia: 2.35 
# 68   Tunisia: 2.27 
# 69   Ecuador: 2.26 
# 70   Azerbaijan: 2.18 
# 71   Cuba: 2.1 
# 72   Gabon: 2.06 
# 73   Korea, North: 1.92 
# 74   Colombia: 1.9 
# 75   Kyrgyzstan: 1.87 
# 76   Albania: 1.86 
# 77   China: 1.84 
# 78   Algeria: 1.79 
# 79   Iraq: 1.73 
# 80   Jordan: 1.71 
# 81   Egypt: 1.7 
# 82   Botswana: 1.68 
# 83   Morocco: 1.56 
# 84   El Salvador: 1.55 
# 85   Indonesia: 1.48 
# 86   Zimbabwe: 1.45 
# 87   Honduras: 1.43 
# 88   Philippines: 1.42 
= 89   Guatemala: 1.4 
= 89   Papua New Guinea: 1.4 
# 91   Dominica: 1.37 
# 92   Peru: 1.33 
# 93   Nigeria: 1.31 
= 94   Bolivia: 1.29 
= 94   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1.29 
# 96   Nicaragua: 1.26 
# 97   Mauritania: 1.22 
# 98   Zambia: 1.21 
= 99   Armenia: 1.16 
= 99   Liberia: 1.16 
= 101   Kenya: 1.15 
= 101   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1.15 
# 103   Sudan: 1.14 
= 104   Central African Republic: 1.12 
= 104   Ghana: 1.12 
# 106   Pakistan: 1.09 
# 107   Burma: 1.07 
= 108   India: 1.06 
= 108   Senegal: 1.06 
# 110   Tanzania: 1.02 
# 111   Nepal: 1.01 
# 112   Gambia, The: 0.99 
= 113   Benin: 0.97 
= 113   Niger: 0.97 
= 113   Somalia: 0.97 
= 116   Sri Lanka: 0.95 
= 116   Cote d'Ivoire: 0.95 
= 116   Vietnam: 0.95 
# 119   Madagascar: 0.93 
# 120   Laos: 0.91 
= 121   Tajikistan: 0.9 
= 121   Rwanda: 0.9 
= 121   Burkina Faso: 0.9 
# 124   Cameroon: 0.89 
# 125   Uganda: 0.88 
# 126   Malawi: 0.87 
# 127   Mali: 0.86 
= 128   Guinea: 0.85 
= 128   Ethiopia: 0.85 
# 130   Cambodia: 0.83 
= 131   Angola: 0.82 
= 131   Togo: 0.82 
# 133   Guinea-Bissau: 0.8 
# 134   Bhutan: 0.79 
# 135   Haiti: 0.78 
# 136   Mozambique: 0.76 
= 137   Chad: 0.75 
= 137   Burundi: 0.75 
# 139   Sierra Leone: 0.73 
# 140   Namibia: 0.66 
# 141   Bangladesh: 0.6 
Weighted average: 3.1  



DEFINITION: Ecological footprint per capita
Units: Hectares per Person

SOURCE: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.

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Gina
2nd November 2009 		I never see my contry in the map
Caleb Bowman
28th September 2009 		Dragonshit
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2nd June 2009 		This website is absolutelty shite
gerald
6th June 2005 		how possible can we rely on the ecological footprint concept in environmental management
Edria Murray
Staff editor
14th February 2005

The Ecological Footprint is a method of measuring and analysing resource consumption and waste output compared to the renewable capacity of nature.
It represents the amount of productive land area needed to produce the resources (food,

energy and materials) and to absorb the wastes produced by an individual. Since 1980, the

average per capita ecological footprint has decreased as many processes (especially crop

production) have become more efficient.



If the ecological footprint exceeds the available productive land, The resource use is

considered unsustainable.



Globally, the available ecologically productive land area included in the Ecological

footprint analysis is 1.89 hectares for each person. The footprint takes into account fossil

fuel use, cropland, forests, nuclear and hydroelectric power, fisheries and buildings.



Countries with a high per capita GDP have a

high global footprint as they also have a high level of fossil fuel consumption. Some

european countries including Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, the United kingdom and Finland have taken steps to reduce their per capita global footprint.
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