Higher income, more developed countries generally have a higher Footprint than poorer, less developed countries.
Footprint: Rich vs Poor
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 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
