Higher income, more developed countries generally have a higher Footprint than poorer, less developed countries.
Footprint: Rich vs Poor
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We see this difference when the Ecological Footprint is analyzed according to countries in different political groupings that broadly represent different economic levels.
City from an OECD country; village from an ASEAN country.
Ecological Footprint for OECD, ASEAN, BRIC and African Union countries in 2007, as a proportion of humanity’s total Ecological Footprint.
We also see this difference when we look at the Ecological Footprint per person in countries with different income levels as defined by the World Bank.
Figure 15: Every human activity uses biologically productive land and/or fishing grounds
The Ecological Footprint is the sum of this area, regardless of where it is located on the planet. LPR2010
Figure 33: Changes in the Ecological Footprint per person in high-, middle- and low-income countries between 1961 and 2007 The dashed line represents world average biocapacity in 2007. LPR2010
