Countries With The Highest Amount of Threatened Species
These maps visualizes the countries with a pronounced count of threatened species in 2018. The species include plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates. The threatened category refers to critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable species. Data was pulled from the 2018 UN Statistical Yearbook
1. Madagascar – 1616
2. Ecuador – 2368
3. USA – 1540
4. Indonesia – 1295
5. Malaysia – 1257
Top 5 countries for threatened species
Countries With The Highest Amount of Threatened Species
Although Ecuador is ranked 10th country in the world in having the greatest amount of unique species, the country is ranked 1st in having the most threatened species.
1. Ecuador
2. Madagascar
3. Malaysia
4. China
5. Cameroon
Countries With The Highest Amount of Threatened Vertebrates
Top 5 countries for threatened vertebrates species. Mexico ranks number 5 of total number of species by country.
1. Mexico
2. Indonesia
3. Madagascar
4. India
5. Colombia
Threatened Invertebrates Species
The US is number one for threated invertebrates. Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column. These are usually anthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans), mollusks (chitons, snail, squids), annelid (earthworms and leeches), and cnidarians (hydras, jellyfishes, sea anemones, and corals)
