What 5 countries have the biggest ecological footprints?

Answer 1

A recent study (WWF Living Planet Report: October 2008) names the top ten countries with the highest ecological footprint per head as:

# United Arab Emirates (9.5 global hectares per person)

# United States (9.4 gh)

# Kuwait (8.9 gh) # Denmark (8.0 gh) # Australia (7.8 gh) # New Zealand (7.7 gh) # Canada (7.1 gh) # Norway (6.9 gh) # Estonia (6.4 gh) # Ireland. (6.3 gh) The lowest country is Malawi, in Africa with an ecological footprint per person of 0.5 gh

World total per person: 2.7 gh

High-income countries: 6.4 gh

Middle-income countries: 2.2 gh

Low-income countries: 1.0 gh

Answer 2

Afghanistan has the lowest footprint at .01 hectares per person, then Pakistan at .06. This is in comparison to the the United States which is 12.22 hectares per person.