Environment > Water > Freshwater pollution: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwater
Units: Metric Tons of BOD Emissions per Cubic Km of Water
Units: Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. The data from the World Bank, which represented BOD emissions (kilograms per day) were normalized by the combination of water availability per capita and water inflow availability per capita from the WaterGap2.1 model. In calculating the ESI, the base-10 logarithm of this variable was used.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Israel	27.07 tons/cubic km	2001
2	Jordan	11.53 tons/cubic km	2001
3	Tunisia	11.4 tons/cubic km	2001
4	Algeria	8.58 tons/cubic km	2001
5	Czech Republic	7.9 tons/cubic km	2001
6	Morocco	7.85 tons/cubic km	2001
7	Denmark	7.13 tons/cubic km	2001
8	Poland	5.85 tons/cubic km	2001
9	South Korea	5.68 tons/cubic km	2001
10	Ukraine	5.52 tons/cubic km	2001
11	South Africa	4.74 tons/cubic km	2001
12	Republic of Macedonia	4.7 tons/cubic km	2001
13	Japan	4.27 tons/cubic km	2001
14	China	3.78 tons/cubic km	2001
15	Spain	3.7 tons/cubic km	2001
16	Egypt	3.58 tons/cubic km	2001
17	United Kingdom	3.34 tons/cubic km	2001
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	3.3 tons/cubic km	2001
18	Switzerland	3.02 tons/cubic km	2001
19	Portugal	2.5 tons/cubic km	2001
20	France	2.49 tons/cubic km	2001
21	Oman	2.3 tons/cubic km	2001
22	Jamaica	2.19 tons/cubic km	2001
23	Armenia	2.14 tons/cubic km	2001
=24	Greece	1.32 tons/cubic km	2001
=24	Slovenia	1.32 tons/cubic km	2001
=26	Lithuania	1.29 tons/cubic km	2001
=26	Netherlands	1.29 tons/cubic km	2001
28	El Salvador	1.21 tons/cubic km	2001
29	Hungary	1.17 tons/cubic km	2001
30	United States	1.14 tons/cubic km	2001
31	Turkey	1.1 tons/cubic km	2001
32	India	0.97 tons/cubic km	2001
33	Austria	0.88 tons/cubic km	2001
34	Latvia	0.8 tons/cubic km	2001
35	Kenya	0.78 tons/cubic km	2001
36	Slovakia	0.76 tons/cubic km	2001
37	Philippines	0.69 tons/cubic km	2001
38	Ireland	0.68 tons/cubic km	2001
39	Sweden	0.62 tons/cubic km	2001
40	Finland	0.61 tons/cubic km	2001
41	Bulgaria	0.51 tons/cubic km	2001
42	Senegal	0.48 tons/cubic km	2001
43	Russia	0.43 tons/cubic km	2001
=44	Mexico	0.42 tons/cubic km	2001
=44	Zimbabwe	0.42 tons/cubic km	2001
46	Malaysia	0.4 tons/cubic km	2001
47	Costa Rica	0.36 tons/cubic km	2001
48	Croatia	0.32 tons/cubic km	2001
49	Albania	0.27 tons/cubic km	2001
50	Chile	0.25 tons/cubic km	2001
51	Norway	0.2 tons/cubic km	2001
52	Botswana	0.18 tons/cubic km	2001
=53	Nepal	0.17 tons/cubic km	2001
=53	New Zealand	0.17 tons/cubic km	2001
=55	Ethiopia	0.16 tons/cubic km	2001
=55	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.16 tons/cubic km	2001
=55	Indonesia	0.16 tons/cubic km	2001
58	Panama	0.15 tons/cubic km	2001
59	Guatemala	0.12 tons/cubic km	2001
=60	Cote d'Ivoire	0.11 tons/cubic km	2001
=60	Canada	0.11 tons/cubic km	2001
62	Ecuador	0.09 tons/cubic km	2001
63	Iceland	0.08 tons/cubic km	2001
64	Venezuela	0.07 tons/cubic km	2001
65	Cameroon	0.05 tons/cubic km	2001
=66	Colombia	0.03 tons/cubic km	2001
=66	Uruguay	0.03 tons/cubic km	2001
=68	Burma	0.0	2001
=68	Mozambique	0.0	2001

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