Former Soviet republics Compared by Environment > SO2 emissions per populated area

DEFINITION: SO2 emissions per populated land area
Units: 1000 Metric Tons/Sq. Km. of Populated Land Area
Units: We obtained the total emissions for each country by summarizing emissions data, originally available as a grid map with 1 degree x 1 degree cells. Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then used this land area as a denominator for the emissions data.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Tajikistan	2,610 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
2	Armenia	2,290 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
3	Ukraine	2,060 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
4	Lithuania	1,690 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
5	Azerbaijan	1,680 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
6	Moldova	1,650 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
7	Belarus	950 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
8	Russia	930 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
9	Uzbekistan	770 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
=10	Estonia	580 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
=10	Kazakhstan	580 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
12	Kyrgyzstan	270 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
=13	Turkmenistan	180 thousand metric tons/squ	2000
=13	Latvia	180 thousand metric tons/squ	2000

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