Environment Stats: compare key data on French Guiana & United States
Definitions
- Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999: 1999 total CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring. Emissions are expressed in thousand metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
- Proportion of land and marine area under protection: Terrestrial and marine areas protected to total territorial area, percentage.
- Proportion of land area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, rural.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, urban.
- Sanitation > Population with improved sanitation > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, total.
- Waste > Hazardous waste created: Annual generation of hazardous waste (as defined by the Basel Convention).
- Waste > Local garbage collected: Municipal waste collected.
- Waste > Population served by local garbage collection: Total population served by municipal waste collection.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, rural.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, urban.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved drinking water sources > Urban and rural: Proportion of the population using improved drinking water sources, total.
- Water > Drinking water > Population with improved sanitation > Rural: Proportion of the population using improved sanitation facilities, rural.
- Water > Population connected to wastewater collecting system: Population connected to wastewater collecting system.
- Water > Proportion of marine area under protection: Marine areas protected to territorial waters, percentage.
SOURCES: Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division Original html; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables
