Water suspended solids (most recent) by country

SOURCE
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

DEFINITION
Suspended solids
Units: Natural Log of Milligrams/Liter
Units: The country values represent averages of the station-level values for the three year time period 1994-96, exceptwhere data were only available for an earlier time period (1988-1993). The number of stations per country varies depending on country size; number of bodies of water; and level of participation in the GEMS monitoring system. Data from "The Wellbeing of Nations" included a smaller subset of stations representing outfalls of majorwatersheds. An analysis of a sample of countries with numerous stations found that the data for stations in the subset is broadly comparable to the data for all GEMS stations in those countries. The data in this table was transformed using the natural logarithm.

Environment Statistics > Water > Suspended solids (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Uzbekistan:

8.09 mls/litre

# 2

Kuwait:

8.08 mls/litre

# 3

United Arab Emirates:

8.04 mls/litre

= 4

Saudi Arabia:

8.01 mls/litre

= 4

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

8.01 mls/litre

= 6

China:

7.97 mls/litre

= 6

Estonia:

7.97 mls/litre

# 8

Turkmenistan:

7.86 mls/litre

# 9

Korea, North:

7.85 mls/litre

# 10

Australia:

7.64 mls/litre

# 11

Liberia:

7.6 mls/litre

# 12

Belarus:

7.54 mls/litre

# 13

Trinidad and Tobago:

7.44 mls/litre

= 14

Kazakhstan:

7.22 mls/litre

= 14

Iraq:

7.22 mls/litre

# 16

Guinea-Bissau:

7.17 mls/litre

# 17

Namibia:

7.01 mls/litre

# 18

Oman:

6.96 mls/litre

# 19

Tajikistan:

6.93 mls/litre

# 20

Somalia:

6.88 mls/litre

# 21

Dominica:

6.85 mls/litre

# 22

Pakistan:

6.76 mls/litre

# 23

Azerbaijan:

6.61 mls/litre

# 24

India:

6.56 mls/litre

= 25

Moldova:

6.52 mls/litre

= 25

Vietnam:

6.52 mls/litre

# 27

Burma:

6.41 mls/litre

= 28

Honduras:

6.38 mls/litre

= 28

Paraguay:

6.38 mls/litre

= 28

Sudan:

6.38 mls/litre

# 31

Libya:

6.32 mls/litre

# 32

Gabon:

6.26 mls/litre

# 33

Haiti:

6.16 mls/litre

# 34

Madagascar:

6.13 mls/litre

# 35

Croatia:

6.12 mls/litre

# 36

Lebanon:

6.1 mls/litre

# 37

Papua New Guinea:

6.09 mls/litre

# 38

Nigeria:

5.99 mls/litre

# 39

Gambia, The:

5.97 mls/litre

= 40

Iran:

5.92 mls/litre

= 40

Togo:

5.92 mls/litre

# 42

Sierra Leone:

5.9 mls/litre

# 43

Cote d'Ivoire:

5.89 mls/litre

# 44

Mauritania:

5.86 mls/litre

= 45

Benin:

5.81 mls/litre

= 45

Sri Lanka:

5.81 mls/litre

# 47

Rwanda:

5.77 mls/litre

# 48

Malaysia:

5.7 mls/litre

# 49

Jamaica:

5.66 mls/litre

# 50

Kenya:

5.64 mls/litre

# 51

Italy:

5.63 mls/litre

= 52

Iceland:

5.61 mls/litre

= 52

Mongolia:

5.61 mls/litre

# 54

Thailand:

5.6 mls/litre

# 55

Burundi:

5.57 mls/litre

# 56

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

5.55 mls/litre

# 57

Bolivia:

5.48 mls/litre

# 58

Cameroon:

5.42 mls/litre

# 59

Nepal:

5.41 mls/litre

= 60

Cambodia:

5.37 mls/litre

= 60

Indonesia:

5.37 mls/litre

# 62

Angola:

5.32 mls/litre

# 63

Niger:

5.29 mls/litre

# 64

Tunisia:

5.24 mls/litre

# 65

Nicaragua:

5.19 mls/litre

# 66

Mexico:

5.17 mls/litre

# 67

El Salvador:

5.16 mls/litre

# 68

Laos:

5.13 mls/litre

= 69

Algeria:

5.11 mls/litre

= 69

Zambia:

5.11 mls/litre

# 71

Chile:

5.1 mls/litre

# 72

Bhutan:

5.03 mls/litre

# 73

Syria:

5.01 mls/litre

# 74

Peru:

4.96 mls/litre

# 75

Panama:

4.94 mls/litre

# 76

Central African Republic:

4.82 mls/litre

# 77

Kyrgyzstan:

4.78 mls/litre

= 78

Argentina:

4.77 mls/litre

= 78

Colombia:

4.77 mls/litre

= 78

Malawi:

4.77 mls/litre

# 81

Burkina Faso:

4.68 mls/litre

# 82

Zimbabwe:

4.62 mls/litre

= 83

Ghana:

4.55 mls/litre

= 83

Mali:

4.55 mls/litre

# 85

Tanzania:

4.52 mls/litre

# 86

Jordan:

4.5 mls/litre

# 87

South Africa:

4.44 mls/litre

# 88

Ukraine:

4.42 mls/litre

# 89

Morocco:

4.4 mls/litre

# 90

Romania:

4.38 mls/litre

= 91

Cuba:

4.33 mls/litre

= 91

Costa Rica:

4.33 mls/litre

# 93

Uruguay:

4.32 mls/litre

# 94

Uganda:

4.22 mls/litre

# 95

United States:

4.19 mls/litre

# 96

Botswana:

4.18 mls/litre

# 97

Ecuador:

4.1 mls/litre

= 98

Guinea:

4.09 mls/litre

= 98

Armenia:

4.09 mls/litre

= 100

Bangladesh:

4.08 mls/litre

= 100

Brazil:

4.08 mls/litre

# 102

Spain:

4.04 mls/litre

# 103

Switzerland:

3.98 mls/litre

# 104

Ireland:

3.97 mls/litre

# 105

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

3.94 mls/litre

= 106

Venezuela:

3.93 mls/litre

= 106

Czech Republic:

3.93 mls/litre

# 108

Guatemala:

3.91 mls/litre

# 109

Egypt:

3.88 mls/litre

# 110

Slovenia:

3.87 mls/litre

# 111

Chad:

3.86 mls/litre

# 112

Slovakia:

3.75 mls/litre

# 113

Philippines:

3.62 mls/litre

= 114

Albania:

3.59 mls/litre

= 114

Mozambique:

3.59 mls/litre

= 114

Ethiopia:

3.59 mls/litre

# 117

Greece:

3.57 mls/litre

# 118

Belgium:

3.53 mls/litre

# 119

Hungary:

3.42 mls/litre

# 120

Japan:

3.27 mls/litre

= 121

Netherlands:

3.26 mls/litre

= 121

Senegal:

3.26 mls/litre

= 123

France:

3.24 mls/litre

= 123

Poland:

3.24 mls/litre

# 125

Russia:

3.23 mls/litre

# 126

Bulgaria:

3.09 mls/litre

# 127

Germany:

3.06 mls/litre

# 128

Norway:

3.02 mls/litre

# 129

Lithuania:

2.98 mls/litre

# 130

Latvia:

2.9 mls/litre

# 131

Canada:

2.84 mls/litre

# 132

Israel:

2.83 mls/litre

# 133

Denmark:

2.62 mls/litre

# 134

Sweden:

2.47 mls/litre

# 135

New Zealand:

2.32 mls/litre

# 136

Turkey:

2.3 mls/litre

# 137

United Kingdom:

2.26 mls/litre

# 138

Austria:

1.95 mls/litre

# 139

Portugal:

1.94 mls/litre

# 140

Korea, South:

1.69 mls/litre

# 141

Finland:

1.17 mls/litre

Weighted average:

5.0 mls/litre

DEFINITION: Suspended solids
Units: Natural Log of Milligrams/Liter
Units: The country values represent averages of the station-level values for the three year time period 1994-96, exceptwhere data were only available for an earlier time period (1988-1993). The number of stations per country varies depending on country size; number of bodies of water; and level of participation in the GEMS monitoring system. Data from "The Wellbeing of Nations" included a smaller subset of stations representing outfalls of majorwatersheds. An analysis of a sample of countries with numerous stations found that the data for stations in the subset is broadly comparable to the data for all GEMS stations in those countries. The data in this table was transformed using the natural logarithm.

SOURCE: 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

Environment Statistics > Water > Suspended solids (most recent) by country

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