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This is a list of countries by ecological footprint. The table is based on data spanning from 1961 to 2013 from the
Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts published in 2016. Numbers are given in
* Assumes that biocapacity and ecological footprint per person will not change when population changes.
* List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
* Sustainable development
* List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
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This is a list of countries by ecological footprint. The table is based on data spanning from 1961 to 2013 from the
Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts published in 2016. Numbers are given in global hectares
The global hectare (gha) is a measurement unit for the ecological footprint of people or activities and the biocapacity of the Earth or its regions. One global hectare is the world's annual amount of biological production for human use and human wa ...
per capita. The
world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares
The global hectare (gha) is a measurement unit for the ecological footprint of people or activities and the biocapacity of the Earth or its regions. One global hectare is the world's annual amount of biological production for human use and human wa ...
per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion in total).
For humanity, having a footprint smaller than the planet's biocapacity is a necessary condition for sustainability. After all, ecological overuse is only possible temporarily. A country that consumes more than 1.73 gha per person has a resource demand that is not sustainable world-wide if every country were to exceed that consumption level simultaneously. Countries with a footprint below 1.73 gha per person might not be sustainable: the quality of the footprint may still lead to net long-term ecological destruction. If a country does not have enough ecological resources within its own territory to cover its population's footprint, then it runs an ecological deficit and the country is termed an ''ecological debtor''. Otherwise, it has an ecological reserve and it is called a ''creditor''. To a significant degree, biocapacity correlates with access to water resources.
Countries and regions
'' This table below is based on 2012 results (National Footprint Accounts edition 2016). The latest edition (2021), produced byYork University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
, Footprint Data Foundation,https://www.FoDaFo.org and Global Footprint Network, is available on Global Footprint Network's website at http://data.footprintnetwork.org. Note that this list contains only 188 countries, covering most of the countries with more than one million inhabitants.''
See also
* List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
* Sustainable development
* List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
* Peak water
Peak water is a concept that underlines the growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources.
Peak water was defined in a 2010 peer-reviewed article in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' by ...
, water resources and water withdrawal
References
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