| Environment - current issues | many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land; waterborne diseases prevalent in surface water; water pollution, especially of fishing areas, results from the use of commercial pesticides; ground water contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic; intermittent water shortages because of falling water tables in the northern and central parts of the country; soil degradation and erosion; deforestation; destruction of wetlands; severe overpopulation with noise pollution |
| Environment - international agreements | party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Air pollutants | particulate matter emissions: 58.33 micrograms per cubic meter (2016 est.) carbon dioxide emissions: 84.25 megatons (2016 est.) methane emissions: 59.3 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Total water withdrawal | municipal: 3.6 billion cubic meters (2017 est.) industrial: 770 million cubic meters (2017 est.) agricultural: 31.5 billion cubic meters (2017 est.) |
| Revenue from forest resources | forest revenues: 0.08% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | coal revenues: 0.02% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | municipal solid waste generated annually: 14,778,497 tons (2012 est.) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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