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Report year 1971Data year 1971
Ecological Footprint (global hectares per person)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by Global Footprint Network
65 reference years (1961–2025), covering 104 to 126 countries. It measures how much biologically productive land and sea a country’s consumption demands, per person, in global hectares - so a higher figure means a heavier demand on nature, not a richer country, though in practice the two track closely. ⚠ 2024 and 2025 are GFN NOWCASTS rather than accounted years: the headline figure is published but every land-type component behind it is empty. ⚠ Four dissolved states in the source (Yugoslav SFR, Serbia and Montenegro, Ethiopia PDR and Sudan (former)) are deliberately not imported, because every row here keys to a present-day country. The visible cost is that Ethiopia’s series starts in 1993 and Sudan’s in 2012. ⚠ GFN publishes no rank, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.
Ecological Footprint 1971 — Global Footprint Network
Cite as: Global Footprint Network. National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. Oakland, CA: Global Footprint Network.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Ecological Footprint of consumption per person, in global hectares, from the Global Footprint Network's National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. ⚠ 2024 and 2025 are GFN nowcasts: the headline figure is published but its land-type components are not. GFN publishes no rank, so none is stored or derived.
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