By Country
The world-average ecological footprint in 2007 was 2.7 global hectares per person. The average per country ranges from over 10 to under 1 global hectare per person. There is also a high variation within countries, depending on individual lifestyle.
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Famous quotes containing the word country:
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)