Countries With the Lowest Environment Scores

Every country with a figure for environment score, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Naoero (-1.36), Libya (-1.13) and Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (-1.09). The middle country of the 213 has -0.0871.

What this measures

Environment score, in typical gaps (standard deviations). Source: PlaceStats. For this measure, higher is better.

The average of 3 measures from 1 publisher. Each measure is first put on a common scale: 0 is the average country in an average year, and 1 is a typical gap between countries (a standard deviation). Each is turned so that higher is better. Measures are averaged within each publisher first, so a publisher with many measures does not count for more. Members: Forest area, CO2 per capita, Protected land.

A standard deviation is a typical gap between places.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2023–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on environment score

• Countries With the Highest Environment Scores
• Environment score by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Recycling Rates
• Countries With the Lowest CO2 per Capita
• Countries With the Lowest Forest Area
• Countries With the Lowest Agricultural Land
• Countries With the Lowest Protected Land

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.