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Countries with the highest environmental stress

Environmental meta-index across 5 indicators.

  1. 1

    UAE

    Environmental meta-index
    79.3
    High
  2. 2

    Israel

    Environmental meta-index
    56.4
    Elevated
  3. 3

    South Korea

    Environmental meta-index
    55.9
    Elevated
  4. 4

    Turkey

    Environmental meta-index
    53.1
    Elevated
  5. 5

    Singapore

    Environmental meta-index
    52.9
    Elevated
  6. 6

    South Africa

    Environmental meta-index
    52.4
    Elevated
  7. 7

    United States

    Environmental meta-index
    50.7
    Elevated
  8. 8

    Poland

    Environmental meta-index
    50.6
    Elevated
  9. 9

    Australia

    Environmental meta-index
    48.2
    Elevated
  10. 10

    India

    Environmental meta-index
    48.2
    Elevated

What this measures

Environmental stress accumulates over decades. Year-on-year movement is slow, but the static ranking already reveals which countries face the steepest adaptation challenges.

Other rankings

Rankings update every 12 hours from the live indicator pipeline. Every number traces back to its source on the country page.

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