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| Biodiversity and Protected Areas — Species: Vascular plant species, number Units: Number |
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| World {1} | 270,000 | |
| ISO | 2004 | |
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| Afghanistan | AFG | 4,000 |
| Albania | ALB | 3,031 |
| Algeria | DZA | 3,164 |
| American Samoa | ASM | 471 |
| Andorra | AND | 1,350 |
| Angola | AGO | 5,185 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 1,158 |
| Argentina | ARG | 9,372 |
| Armenia | ARM | 3,553 |
| Aruba | ABW | 460 |
| Australia | AUS | 15,638 |
| Austria | AUT | 3,100 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 4,300 |
| Bahamas | BHS | 1,111 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 195 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 5,000 |
| Barbados | BRB | 572 |
| Belarus | BLR | 2,100 |
| Belgium | BEL | 1,550 |
| Belize | BLZ | 2,894 |
| Benin | BEN | 2,500 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 167 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 5,468 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 17,367 |
| Botswana | BWA | 2,151 |
| Brazil | BRA | 56,215 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 6,000 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 3,572 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 1,100 |
| Burundi | BDI | 2,500 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 8,260 |
| Canada | CAN | 3,270 |
| Cape Verde | CPV | 774 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 539 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | CIV | 3,660 |
| Central African Rep | CAF | 3,602 |
| Chad | TCD | 1,600 |
| Chile | CHL | 5,284 |
| China | CHN | 32,200 |
| Colombia | COL | 51,220 |
| Comoros | COM | 721 |
| Congo | COG | 6,000 |
| Congo, Dem Rep | COD | 11,007 |
| Cook Islands | COK | 284 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 12,119 |
| Croatia | HRV | 4,288 |
| Cuba | CUB | 6,522 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 1,682 |
| Czech Rep | CZE | 1,900 |
| Denmark | DNK | 1,450 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 826 |
| Dominica | DMA | 1,228 |
| Dominican Rep | DOM | 5,657 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 19,362 |
| Egypt | EGY | 2,076 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 2,911 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 3,250 |
| Estonia | EST | 1,630 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 6,603 |
| Faeroe Islands | FRO | 236 |
| Falkland Islands | FLK | 165 |
| Fiji | FJI | 1,518 |
| Finland | FIN | 1,102 |
| France | FRA | 4,630 |
| French Guiana | GUF | 5,625 |
| French Polynesia | PYF | 959 |
| Gabon | GAB | 6,651 |
| Gambia | GMB | 974 |
| Georgia | GEO | 4,350 |
| Germany | DEU | 2,682 |
| Ghana | GHA | 3,725 |
| Gibraltar | GIB | 600 |
| Greece | GRC | 4,992 |
| Greenland | GRL | 529 |
| Grenada | GRD | 1,068 |
| Guadeloupe | GLP | 1,400 |
| Guam | GUM | 330 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 8,681 |
| Guinea | GIN | 3,000 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 1,000 |
| Guyana | GUY | 6,409 |
| Haiti | HTI | 5,242 |
| Honduras | HND | 5,680 |
| Hungary | HUN | 2,214 |
| Iceland | ISL | 377 |
| India | IND | 18,664 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 29,375 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep | IRN | 8,000 |
| Ireland | IRL | 950 |
| Israel | ISR | 2,317 |
| Italy | ITA | 5,599 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 3,308 |
| Japan | JPN | 5,565 |
| Jordan | JOR | 2,100 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 6,000 |
| Kenya | KEN | 6,506 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 60 |
| Korea, Dem People's Rep | PRK | 2,898 |
| Korea, Rep | KOR | 2,898 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 234 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 4,500 |
| Lao People's Dem Rep | LAO | 8,286 |
| Latvia | LVA | 1,153 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 3,000 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 1,591 |
| Liberia | LBR | 2,200 |
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | LBY | 1,825 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 1,410 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 1,796 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 1,246 |
| Macedonia, FYR | MKD | 3,500 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 9,505 |
| Malawi | MWI | 3,765 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 15,500 |
| Maldives | MDV | 583 |
| Mali | MLI | 1,741 |
| Malta | MLT | 914 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 100 |
| Martinique | MTQ | 1,287 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 1,100 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 750 |
| Mexico | MEX | 26,071 |
| Micronesia, Fed States | FSM | 1,194 |
| Moldova, Rep | MDA | 1,752 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 2,823 |
| Morocco | MAR | 3,675 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 5,692 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 7,000 |
| Namibia | NAM | 3,174 |
| Nauru | NRU | 50 |
| Nepal | NPL | 6,973 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 1,221 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 3,250 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 2,382 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 7,590 |
| Niger | NER | 1,460 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 4,715 |
| Niue | NIU | 178 |
| Norway | NOR | 1,715 |
| Oman | OMN | 1,204 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 4,950 |
| Panama | PAN | 9,915 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 11,544 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 7,851 |
| Peru | PER | 17,144 |
| Philippines | PHL | 8,931 |
| Poland | POL | 2,450 |
| Portugal | PRT | 5,050 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 2,493 |
| Qatar | QAT | 355 |
| Réunion | REU | 546 |
| Romania | ROU | 3,400 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 11,400 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 2,288 |
| Saint Helena | SHN | 165 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 659 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | STP | 895 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 2,028 |
| Senegal | SEN | 2,086 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | YUG | 4,082 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 250 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 2,090 |
| Singapore | SGP | 2,282 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 3,124 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 3,200 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 3,172 |
| Somalia | SOM | 3,028 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 23,420 |
| Spain | ESP | 5,050 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 3,314 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 1,028 |
| St. Vincent & Grenadines | VCT | 1,166 |
| Sudan | SDN | 3,137 |
| Suriname | SUR | 5,018 |
| Swaziland | SWZ | 2,715 |
| Sweden | SWE | 1,750 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 3,030 |
| Syrian Arab Rep | SYR | 3,000 |
| Taiwan | TWN | 3,568 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 5,000 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 10,008 |
| Thailand | THA | 11,625 |
| Togo | TGO | 3,085 |
| Tonga | TON | 463 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 2,259 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 2,196 |
| Turkey | TUR | 8,650 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 448 |
| Uganda | UGA | 4,900 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 5,100 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 1,623 |
| United States | USA | 19,473 |
| Uruguay | URY | 2,278 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 4,800 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 870 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 21,073 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 10,500 |
| Western Sahara | 330 | |
| Yemen | YEM | 1,650 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 4,747 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 4,440 |
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| Footnotes |
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| 1 - World |
| Includes only flowering plants, not ferns, conifers and cycads. This is the most frequently cited estimate, published in Scientific American in 1992. Estimates vary widely, however, ranging from 230,000 (1974) to 420,000 (2002). |
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| Country Data: World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC), 2004. Species Data (unpublished, September 2004). Web site at: http://www.unep-wcmc.org. Cambridge, England: UNEP-WCMC. World Data: May, RM. 1992. "How many species inhabit the Earth?" Scientific American 267(4), 18-24. |
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