Eritrea - Organic water pollutant
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day)
The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) in Eritrea was 2,540 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,138 in 1994 and a minimum value of 2,384 in 1992.
Definition:
Source: 1998 study by Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani, and David Wheeler, "Industrial Pollution in Economic Development: Kuznets Revisited" (available at www.worldbank.org/nipr). The data were updated by the World Bank's Development Research Group using the same methodology as the initial study.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 2,384 |
| 1993 | 3,053 |
| 1994 | 3,138 |
| 1995 | 3,104 |
| 1996 | 3,005 |
| 1997 | 2,681 |
| 1998 | 2,914 |
| 1999 | 2,806 |
| 2000 | 2,819 |
| 2001 | 2,677 |
| 2002 | 2,509 |
| 2003 | 2,558 |
| 2004 | 2,770 |
| 2005 | 2,871 |
| 2006 | 2,775 |
| 2007 | 2,540 |
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker)
The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker) in Eritrea was 0.20 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 15 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.23 in 1996 and a minimum value of 0.18 in 1997.
Definition:
Source: World Bank and UNIDO's industry database.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 0.20 |
Classification
Topic: Environment Indicators
Sub-Topic: Water pollution
