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The world in thirds - countries by size of footprintGF33 - the middle third of the world
Around a third of the world's population+ lives in countries with an average footprint around the mean (between 1.6 and 2.9 global hectares per person).  Click here for a chart of these ranked by footprint (pdf format)
Click here for the top 'third' and click here for the rest.
 (data - Global Footprint Network - see below for details)
  
Europe:
 Ukraine (2.9)
Serbia and Montenegro (2.5)
Bosnia Herzegovina (2.2)
Macedonia (2.2)
Romania (2.1)
Turkey (2.0)

Americas:
Belize (2.8)
Mexico (2.4)
Venezuela (2.3)
Argentina (2.2)
Chile (2.2)
Brazil (2.1)
Uruguay (2.1)
Bolivia (2.0)
Costa Rica (2.0)
Paraguay (1.9)
Cuba (1.7)
Jamaica (1.7)
Panama (1.7)
Dominican Republic (1.6)

Australasia:
Mongolia (2.7)
Malaysia (2.4)
Uzbekistan (1.8)
China (1.6)

MENA (Middle East/North Africa):
Lebanon (2.8)
Iran (2.3)
Syria (1.7)
Jordan (1.6)

Sub-Saharan Africa:
South Africa (2.4)
Mauritius (1.8)
Mauritania (1.6)

 

Data:  Unless otherwise credited, all statistics are from the 2005 National Footprint Accounts published on the Global Footprint Network website. The data used in the Accounts relates to 2002)
+The total used is the total for countries publishing National Footprint Accounts (148 countries).
 

    

 

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