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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Libya: 89.9% 
#2   Canada: 81.87% 
#3   Algeria: 80.82% 
#4   Iceland: 80.08% 
#5   Mauritania: 79.46% 
#6   Australia: 74% 
#7   Niger: 73.54% 
#8   Gabon: 72.79% 
#9   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 71.62% 
#10   Egypt: 70.06% 
#11   Mongolia: 69.99% 
#12   Botswana: 67.41% 
#13   Namibia: 66.23% 
#14   Russia: 65.8% 
#15   Bolivia: 60.93% 
#16   Mali: 59.81% 
#17   Chad: 59.45% 
#18   Oman: 53.97% 
#19   Central African Republic: 51.5% 
#20   Venezuela: 50.77% 
#21   Brazil: 50.41% 
#22   Colombia: 48.26% 
#23   Peru: 45.56% 
#24   Saudi Arabia: 44.34% 
#25   Paraguay: 44.12% 
#26   Angola: 43.63% 
#27   Sudan: 41.36% 
#28   Chile: 40.46% 
#29   Kazakhstan: 39.45% 
#30   Kenya: 39.01% 
#31   Argentina: 35.99% 
#32   United States: 35.89% 
#33   Papua New Guinea: 35.28% 
#34   Uzbekistan: 34.4% 
#35   New Zealand: 31.51% 
#36   China: 31.49% 
#37   Sweden: 31.41% 
#38   Finland: 30.04% 
#39   Norway: 28.71% 
#40   Malaysia: 27.45% 
#41   Tunisia: 26.2% 
#42   Tajikistan: 25.63% 
#43   Ecuador: 24.93% 
#44   Zambia: 23.98% 
#45   Turkmenistan: 22.28% 
#46   Mozambique: 21.79% 
#47   South Africa: 19.78% 
#48   Somalia: 17.7% 
#49   Mexico: 17.65% 
#50   Morocco: 17.54% 
#51   Madagascar: 17.48% 
#52   Malawi: 16.1% 
#53   Indonesia: 15.95% 
#54   Burma: 15.66% 
#55   Guatemala: 15.1% 
#56   Kyrgyzstan: 14.97% 
#57   Ethiopia: 14.91% 
#58   Panama: 14.83% 
#59   Nicaragua: 12.9% 
#60   Uganda: 12.55% 
#61   Cambodia: 12.16% 
#62   Honduras: 10.65% 
#63   Cameroon: 10.46% 
#64   Tanzania: 9.3% 
#65   Liberia: 8.96% 
#66   Laos: 6.21% 
#67   Burundi: 5.13% 
#68   Cote d'Ivoire: 4.38% 
#69   Senegal: 4.13% 
#70   Iraq: 3.68% 
#71   Spain: 3.43% 
#72   Benin: 3.08% 
#73   Estonia: 2.86% 
#74   Nepal: 2.62% 
#75   Iran: 2.53% 
#76   Pakistan: 2.51% 
#77   Armenia: 2.5% 
#78   Switzerland: 2.43% 
#79   Rwanda: 2.42% 
#80   Uruguay: 2.39% 
#81   Jordan: 2.08% 
#82   India: 1.94% 
#83   Burkina Faso: 1.81% 
#84   Bhutan: 1.76% 
#85   Vietnam: 1.05% 
#86   Zimbabwe: 1.04% 
#87   Cuba: 0.91% 
#88   Thailand: 0.9% 
#89   Portugal: 0.78% 
#90   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.7% 
#91   Guinea-Bissau: 0.65% 
#92   Turkey: 0.64% 
#93   Israel: 0.61% 
#94   Ghana: 0.58% 
#95   Nigeria: 0.55% 
#96   Philippines: 0.52% 
#97   Albania: 0.32% 
#98   Azerbaijan: 0.28% 
#99   United Kingdom: 0.21% 
#100   United Arab Emirates: 0.16% 
#101   Kuwait: 0.11% 
#102   Syria: 0.11% 
#103   Hungary: 0.07% 
#104   Bangladesh: 0.06% 
#105   Japan: 0.06% 
#106   Italy: 0.04% 
#107   France: 0.04% 
#108   Austria: 0.04% 
#109   Latvia: 0.02% 
#110   Germany: 0.02% 
#111   Costa Rica: 0.02% 
#112   Guinea: 0.02% 
#113   Dominica: 0.01% 
#114   Ireland: 0.01% 
#115   Greece: 0.01% 
#116   Sierra Leone: 0% 
#117   Croatia: 0% 
#118   Netherlands: 0% 
#119   Korea, North: 0% 
#120   Slovakia: 0% 
#121   Lebanon: 0% 
#122   Romania: 0% 
#123   Belgium: 0% 
#124   Togo: 0% 
#125   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 0% 
#126   Belarus: 0% 
#127   Jamaica: 0% 
#128   Bulgaria: 0% 
#129   Korea, South: 0% 
#130   Sri Lanka: 0% 
#131   Lithuania: 0% 
#132   Denmark: 0% 
#133   Moldova: 0% 
#134   El Salvador: 0% 
#135   Poland: 0% 
#136   Czech Republic: 0% 
#137   Slovenia: 0% 
#138   Gambia, The: 0% 
#139   Trinidad and Tobago: 0% 
#140   Haiti: 0% 
#141   Ukraine: 0% 
Weighted average: 18.6%  


DEFINITION: Percent of land area having very low anthropogenic impact
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: Global grids for population (GPW), land use (USGS AVHRR based classification from EROS data center), VMAP roads, VMAP railways, VMAP coastlines, VMAP major rivers and the stable lights data were all scored for "wildness". The scores were aggregated and normalized.

SOURCE: 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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