Built-up land**
Total biocapacity
Cropland
Included in total biocapacity Grazing Forest land
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(global ha/person)
(% change 1991-2001)
Fishing ground
Ecological deficit***
Ecological Biocapacity Footprint change change per per capita capita
Human Development Index†
(% change 1991-2001)
Gross domestic product
2001 data
(euros/person)
See notes on pages 18-21
0.07
1.8
0.53
0.27
0.81
0.13
0.4
-2%
-12%
0.72
5 800
0.23 0.07 0.05
3.3 2.0 0.7
1.12 0.51 0.32
0.33 0.30 0.19
1.57 1.07 0.13
0.31 0.13 0.07
3.1 -0.1 0.1
8% -5% -11%
-7% -10% -16%
0.91 0.68 0.44
-
0.16 0.07 0.33 0.01 0.15 0.24 0.11 0.13 0.16 0.20 0.05 0.17 0.12 0.07 0.06 0.12 0.15 0.12 0.07 0.02 0.15 0.07 0.03 0.17 0.34
2.1 3.5 1.2 0.4 2.8 3.5 5.7 12.4 3.1 1.9 1.6 2.4 4.7 1.1 6.5 3.9 0.6 0.8 2.0 1.6 2.9 2.9 1.6 9.8 1.5
0.86 0.71 0.39 0.30 1.06 2.02 1.06 1.08 1.45 0.78 1.02 1.34 1.33 0.58 1.97 1.51 0.07 0.31 0.97 0.41 0.81 0.29 0.92 1.11 0.49
0.08 0.10 0.04 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.14 0.06 0.01 0.07 0.96 0.01 0.19 0.14 0.00 0.05 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.06 0.04 0.04 0.15
1.04 2.64 0.42 0.04 1.56 0.46 4.22 10.93 1.21 0.85 0.27 0.80 0.70 0.38 4.21 2.12 0.00 0.11 0.86 1.08 1.94 2.45 0.57 8.32 0.19
0.12 0.00 0.01 0.10 0.01 0.78 0.22 0.24 0.10 0.03 0.24 0.01 1.60 0.05 0.09 0.02 0.36 0.16 0.01 0.08 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.12 0.36
2.76 1.1 3.7 3.5 2.2 2.9 1.2 -5.4 2.8 2.9 3.9 1.1 1.5 2.7 -2.1 0.0 3.3 4.0 1.6 3.6 0.6 0.9 3.2 -2.7 3.9
3% 4% 10% n/a 1%**** 7% 25% 16% 4% -3% 19% -10% 25% 5% -21% -29% n/a 7% -9% 33% -28%**** 40% 21% 6% -1%
-7% -7% -4% n/a 0%**** -14% 1% -6% -8% 1% -15% -18% -9% -12% 1% 1% n/a -8% -10% -7% 0%**** 0% -7% -3% -12%
0.91 0.93 0.94 n/a 0.86 0.93 0.83 0.93 0.93 0.92 0.89 0.84 0.93 0.92 0.81 0.82 n/a 0.94 0.84 0.90 0.84 0.88 0.92 0.94 0.93
19 26 25 10 5 26 3 26 24 25 12 4 29 21 2 3 8 26 4 12 3 8 16 21 21
400 200 800 100 300 600 500 000 800 200 000 600 400 200 800 000 000 800 200 300 400 700 000 800 500
EU-25 Austria Belgium & Luxembourg Cyprus* Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
0.07 0.45
0.8 4.9
0.35 1.76
0.12 0.28
0.17 2.01
0.05 0.36
0.8 4.7
-7% -11%
0.72 0.94
1 000 39 100
OTHER NATIONS China United States of America
Low income countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, DPR Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Rep. Moldova, Mongolia,
14% 7%
Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, United Rep. Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. * The Cyprus footprint and biocapacity results exclude the Turkish Cypriot Area.
WORLD High income countries Middle income countries Low income countries
** Note that built-up land is part of both Ecological Footprint and biocapacity. *** If number for ecological deficit is negative, country has an ecological reserve. **** For the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 2001 country averages are compared with the Czechoslovakia per person averages. † High/medium/low income country classifications for the Human Development Index are taken from UNDP 2003.
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