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National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts
These accounts contain national and world data since 1961 about: ecological footprint of production, ecological footprint of consumption, ecological footprint embodied in trade, biocapacity, and components of biocapacity and ecological footprint. Components are cropland, grazing land, built-up land, fishing grounds, forest products, and forest carbon uptake. Components are derived from microdata covering hundreds of crops and crop-derived commodities, specific livestock, thousands of fish species, dozens of produced and traded forest products, national sectoral emission flows and emissions embodied in thousands of traded commodities and electricity.
The 2026 Edition contains national and world data from 1961-2025.
Public results are available for the world and countries, including ecological footprint of national production, international trade, and national consumption.
National and world public data as an Excel workbook
Release Notes details the edition's metadata
Additional microdata is available upon request from footprint@yorku.ca for specific crops, livestock, forest products, fish species caught or cultured, traded commodities, and carbon dioxide emissions by activity and international transportation.
This edition was produced by Kiona Lo+, Neha Basnet+, Eric Miller+, Bumika Srikanthalingam+, Beatrice Foley+, Johanna Louise Van Berkum*, Anna Hao Long+, Petra Toneva*, Marina Ermina*, and Clara Klinkenberg* (+ at York University and * at University of Iceland).
This edition replaces prior editions of National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts that we produced: Editions 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021.
National and world public data from this edition are also published by Footprint Data Foundation. This published data is also used and disseminated by other organizations including Global Footprint Network.
Data Stories explain and explore interesting details using the current or prior editions
Results can inform ecological economics with respect to sustainability, account of natural assets and environmental flows, environmentally extended input output analysis, landscape trade-offs with respect to achieving net zero emissions, and the quantification of planetary boundaries at various spatial scales.
The data can also be related to other statistics such as Human Development Index, Sustainable Development Goals Index, and life satisfaction. For example, the data can help to evaluate the extent to which countries have become more, or less, happy as their ecological footprint of consumption grew, or shrank.
National results can inform subnational assessments of ecological footprint and biocapacity, in combination with local data about land cover and use and production or local consumption.
Ontario Ecological Footprint of Consumption and Biocapacity in Ontario
Data were generated for Ecological Footprint of Consumption in 2005, 2010, 2015 and compared to the Biocapacity of lands and waters within Ontario. Ecological Footprint of Consumption was generated by apportioning the national accounts of Canada to Ontario's share of consumption on a sectoral and household basis, taking into account differences in the carbon intensity of electricity generated in Ontario. Data are available within the publication Ontario's Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity: Measures and trends from 2005 to 2015 and through the State of Ontario's Biodiversity reporting system.
University-wide Emissions and Ecological Footprint data
We accounted for scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 (upstream) greenhouse gas emissions, and ecological footprint, of York University, following the approach of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Results are reported by York University Office of Sustainability. The approach we took, and the database we created, could be replicated to other Canadian universities. Please contact footprint@yorku.ca about the possibility of replicating this for your university.
Community Ecological Footprint data
Two projects have generated estimates of Ecological Footprint on a community basis, but our partners have not yet permitted us to share this publicly. The approach we took could be replicated to other communities. Please contact our team about working with your community to measure and reduce its footprint.
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