Talk:List of countries by ecological footprint

Puerto Rico
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and in my opinion should be part of the overall numbers for the United States and not counted as a separate country. In fact they have recently voted towards becoming a US state. What are the thoughts of others? --Jasenlee (talk) 04:56, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Data
Please note that these data are made available for non-commercial use. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Also, these are not the most recent data from Global Footprint Network. The most up-to-date Ecological Footprint and biocapacity results are available here: http://data.footprintnetwork.org/ Justlaurel (talk) 22:02, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

New Discussion
A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries. Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 12:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Remainder numbers make no sense
As far as I understand the Remainder is the difference between the footprint and the available footprint (1.8 per capita). However different countries with the same per capita footprint (e.g. Canada and Greece 5.8) have wildly different remainders (Greece a negative of 4.4 which is somewhere close to but not exactly the difference between 5.8 and 1.8 but Canada being positive by 11.3). I suspect somewhere in the equation the landmass of the country is entered (yet that is not mentioned anywhere). Additionally this seems rather favourable to extreme countries like Canada (a lot of land, but most is frozen) and Australia (lots of deserts).

Is this really the way the remainder should be calculated? If so, what is the source and provide explanation in text. I have no idea what it should be or where to find the information, asit is now it is very confusing so unless this is fixed I will remove the column soon. Arnoutf (talk) 19:45, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You might want to ask CK6569. He/she knows a lot about ecological footprint and explained the remainder to me on my talk page.  Jolly  Ω   Janner  20:19, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * the remainder is the difference in biocapacity and the ecofootprint of each country. How much footprint a country has is independent somewhat to the biocapacity it has.  It is very similar to the amount of energy a country consumes and produces.  While a country like fiji may not produce any energy they still import some energy to consume.  Similarly a country like Greece will use the same ecofootprint as Canada, but since its smaller and has to import the facotrs that go into the EF it has a negative remainder.  There is more information how each is calculated in the PDF link in the references. CK6569 (talk) 14:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Number of Countries
The number of countries is listed as 153. I counted 157. CJB (talk) 21:43, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The number of total countries is listed as 192 (including Puerto Rico for whatever reason). If we count neither dependencies/overseas territories/etc. nor partially recognized countries like Kosovo, Taiwan, and Palestine, we are still left at 194. --AnonymousMusician (talk) 00:09, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Wrong data
Seriously, who has done this table? I was looking at this data and I saw United Kingdom's population as 9.206 millions of people, then I decided to go to the link in the References and the data from the source don't match with this table. 12qwas (talk) 20:11, 25 April 2017 (UTC)