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.
Read more about this topic: Ecological Footprint
Famous quotes containing the word country:
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)