Country Overshoot Days 2023

A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country. 

Let’s take Swiss Overshoot Day as an example. Its 2023 overshoot day is based on the latest (2018) available results from the 2022 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts:

• The Ecological Footprint of Switzerland is 4.35 global hectares (gha) per person (in 2018)
• Global biocapacity is 1.6 gha per person (in 2018)

Therefore, it would take (4.35/ 1.6) = 2.75 Earths to support humanity if everyone on the planet lived like the Swiss.

Sources/Links:

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

http://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

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