Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. Source: 1998 study by Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani, and David Wheeler, “Industrial Pollution in Economic Development: Kuznets Revisited” (available at www.worldbank.org/nipr). The data were updated through 2005 by the World Bank’s Development Research Group using the same methodology as the initial study.
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) - Infrastructure - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)

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Country

Value
1Egypt (1997)206,539
2South Africa (2004)183,841
3Madagascar (2005)88,887
4Morocco (2005)72,779
5Sudan (2001)38,567
6Malawi (2001)32,672
7Zimbabwe (1996)29,285
8Ethiopia (2005)24,137
9Ghana (2003)15,419
10Lesotho (2005)13,153
11Rwanda (1999)7,065
12Senegal (2002)6,621
13Botswana (2005)3,440
14Eritrea (2005)2,871
15Uganda (2000)2,105
16Mauritius (2005)351.39
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