SOURCE
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and
Redefining Progress.
DEFINITION
Ecological footprint per capita
Units: Hectares per Person
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #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 | |
| #29 | Poland: | 5.4 | |
| #30 | 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 | |
| #37 | 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 | |
| #50 | 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 | |
| #64 | Iran: | 2.47 | |
| #65 | Trinidad and Tobago: | 2.43 | |
| #66 | Panama: | 2.35 | |
| #67 | 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 | |
| #90 | Papua New Guinea: | 1.4 | |
| #91 | Dominica: | 1.37 | |
| #92 | Peru: | 1.33 | |
| #93 | Nigeria: | 1.31 | |
| #94 | Bolivia: | 1.29 | |
| #95 | Bosnia and Herzegovina: | 1.29 | |
| #96 | Nicaragua: | 1.26 | |
| #97 | Mauritania: | 1.22 | |
| #98 | Zambia: | 1.21 | |
| #99 | Armenia: | 1.16 | |
| #100 | Liberia: | 1.16 | |
| #101 | Kenya: | 1.15 | |
| #102 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the: | 1.15 | |
| #103 | Sudan: | 1.14 | |
| #104 | Central African Republic: | 1.12 | |
| #105 | Ghana: | 1.12 | |
| #106 | Pakistan: | 1.09 | |
| #107 | Burma: | 1.07 | |
| #108 | India: | 1.06 | |
| #109 | Senegal: | 1.06 | |
| #110 | Tanzania: | 1.02 | |
| #111 | Nepal: | 1.01 | |
| #112 | Gambia, The: | 0.99 | |
| #113 | Benin: | 0.97 | |
| #114 | Niger: | 0.97 | |
| #115 | Somalia: | 0.97 | |
| #116 | Sri Lanka: | 0.95 | |
| #117 | Cote d'Ivoire: | 0.95 | |
| #118 | Vietnam: | 0.95 | |
| #119 | Madagascar: | 0.93 | |
| #120 | Laos: | 0.91 | |
| #121 | Tajikistan: | 0.9 | |
| #122 | Rwanda: | 0.9 | |
| #123 | Burkina Faso: | 0.9 | |
| #124 | Cameroon: | 0.89 | |
| #125 | Uganda: | 0.88 | |
| #126 | Malawi: | 0.87 | |
| #127 | Mali: | 0.86 | |
| #128 | Guinea: | 0.85 | |
| #129 | Ethiopia: | 0.85 | |
| #130 | Cambodia: | 0.83 | |
| #131 | Angola: | 0.82 | |
| #132 | Togo: | 0.82 | |
| #133 | Guinea-Bissau: | 0.8 | |
| #134 | Bhutan: | 0.79 | |
| #135 | Haiti: | 0.78 | |
| #136 | Mozambique: | 0.76 | |
| #137 | Chad: | 0.75 | |
| #138 | 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.