Report on the Global Environment Competitiveness of Latvia

Abstract

Latvia is located in the west of the plain in eastern European, near the east coast of Baltic sea, and borders on Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania. The climate is temperate broad-leaved forest climate, and the peat resources are rich. It covers 62 thousand square kilometres. It had a population of 2.1 million and domestic production the gross (GDP) of USD 28 billion in 2011. Through the evaluation of global environment competitiveness, we can know that the environment competitiveness index of Latvia ranks at 36 in 119 countries.

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Latvia is located in the west of the plain in Eastern Europe, near the east coast of Baltic sea, and borders on Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania. The climate is temperate broad-leaved forest climate, and the peat resources are rich. It covers 62 thousand square kilometres. It had a population of 2.1 million and domestic production the gross (GDP) of USD 28 billion in 2011. Through the evaluation of global environment competitiveness, we can know that the environment competitiveness index of Latvia ranks at 36 in 133 countries.

Score: 52.82

Rank: 36

Fig. 81.1

Contribution of sub-index of GEC

Fig. 81.2

Rank of sub-index of GEC

Fig. 81.3

Score and rank of the pillars of GEC

Table 81.1 Score and rank of all indicators of GEC

Table 81.2 Rank distribution of the individual indicators of GEC