Dataset · Global Footprint Network
Ecological Footprint
65 years, 1961–2025 · 126 countries
The Ecological Footprint measures how much biologically productive land and sea a country’s consumption demands, per person, in global hectares. A higher figure means a heavier draw on nature — not a richer country, though in practice the two track closely.
This site holds every year from 1961 to 2025, read from Global Footprint Network’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Ecological Footprint · the file
- Newest
- Ecological Footprint, 2025
- Held
- 65 years · 7,506 rows
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
0165 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Footprint, 2025Newest | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2024 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2023 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2022 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2021 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2020 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2019 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2018 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2017 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2016 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2015 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Ecological Footprint, 2014 | 126 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 65 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: ecological-footprint-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 126 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 126 | 0 | |
Ecological Footprint (global hectares per person)footprintHeadline | The headline figure: Ecological Footprint (global hectares per person). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.5138 Yemen11.7321 Qatarmiddle 2.2963 | 126 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03126 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Americas | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| Asia | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
| Europe | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Oceania | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| All | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 | 126 |
The newest 12 of 65 years.
Who joined and who left
+ Sudan
+ Montenegro
+ Serbia
+ Palestine
+ Czechia
+ Eritrea
+ Ethiopia
+ Slovakia
+ Belarus
+ Estonia
+ Croatia
+ Lithuania
+ Latvia
+ North Macedonia
+ Russia
+ Slovenia
+ Tajikistan
+ Turkmenistan
+ Uzbekistan
+ Bangladesh
+ Eswatini
+ BotswanaNot in this dataset · 99 places this site covers
Global Footprint Network gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Belize
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cabo Verde
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Comoros
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Djibouti
Dominica
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Faroe Islands
Finland
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Isle of Man
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lesotho
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Montserrat
Morocco
Namibia
Nauru
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niue
North KoreaNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Solomon IslandsSomaliland
South Sudan
Suriname
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Global Footprint Network
2 · Their file
Ecological Footprint 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
65 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as ecological-footprint-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/ecological-footprintA key for Environment & Sustainability in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the Global Footprint Network’s own data platform. Four dissolved states in the source are not imported because every row here keys to a present-day country, which is why Ethiopia’s series starts in 1993 and Sudan’s in 2012.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
- Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence
Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.
A credit line
Source: Global Footprint Network, Ecological Footprint, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Global Footprint Network. Ecological Footprint, 1961–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ecological-footprint
The publisher’s own citation: Global Footprint Network. National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. Oakland, CA: Global Footprint Network.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Ecological Footprint: questions and answers
What is the Ecological Footprint?
The Ecological Footprint measures how much biologically productive land and sea a country’s consumption demands, per person, in global hectares. A higher figure means a heavier draw on nature — not a richer country, though in practice the two track closely.
Which years of the Ecological Footprint can I download?
All 65, from 1961 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does Global Footprint Network rank countries on it?
No. Global Footprint Network publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to Global Footprint Network. The licence text is linked on this page.