๐ Oceans Ranked by Fish Species ๐
1๏ธโฃPacific Ocean โ ~15,000 species
2๏ธโฃAtlantic Ocean โ ~10,000 species
3๏ธโฃIndian Ocean โ ~8,500 species
4๏ธโฃSouthern Ocean โ ~1,500 species
5๏ธโฃArctic Ocean โ ~900 species
๐ Source:
FishBase, NOAA
๐ต๐๏ธ Countries With Virtually No Trees ๐
๐ถ๐ฆ Qatar โ <1% forest cover
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait โ <1%
๐ง๐ญ Bahrain โ <1%
๐ฑ๐พ Libya โ <1%
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt โ <1%
๐ด๐ฒ Oman โ ~0.1%
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia โ ~0.5%
๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates โ ~0.3%
๐ In contrast, countries like Canada and Russia have thousands of trees per person.
Nature can vary dramatically across the planet ๐ฒโก๏ธ๐๏ธ
Source ๐
FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment, World Bank
๐ฒ๐ฅ Countries With More Trees Than People
๐ท๐บ Russia โ ~640 billion trees / 144 million people
โ 4,400 trees per person
๐จ๐ฆ Canada โ ~318 billion trees / 41 million people
โ 7,700 trees per person
๐ง๐ท Brazil โ ~302 billion trees / 212 million people
โ 1,400 trees per person
๐บ๐ธ United States โ ~228 billion trees / 341 million people
โ 670 trees per person
๐ธ๐ช Sweden โ ~30 billion trees / 10.6 million people
โ 2,800 trees per person
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland โ ~22 billion trees / 5.6 million people
โ 3,900 trees per person
๐ณ๐ด Norway โ ~8 billion trees / 5.6 million people
โ 1,400 trees per person
๐ฆ๐บ Australia โ ~30 billion trees / 27 million people
โ 1,100 trees per person
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand โ ~4 billion trees / 5.3 million people
โ 750 trees per person
๐จ๐ฑ Chile โ ~13 billion trees / 20 million people
โ 650 trees per person
๐ Earth is home to an estimated 3 trillion trees โ about 375 trees for every person on the planet.
Which country surprised you the most?
Source ๐
Nature (Crowther et al.), FAO, World Bank