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Albania<br />

France<br />

Greece<br />

Italy<br />

Malta<br />

Monaco<br />

Spain<br />

Yugoslavia<br />

Sub-Average<br />

Algeria<br />

Egypt<br />

Libya<br />

Morocco<br />

Tunisia<br />

Sub-Average<br />

Cyprus<br />

Israel<br />

Lebanon<br />

Syria<br />

Turkey<br />

Sub-Average<br />

- 51 -<br />

Table 10<br />

Livestock Population in Mediterranean Countries<br />

Cattle Sheep<br />

& Goats<br />

199<br />

424<br />

77<br />

158<br />

37<br />

131<br />

224<br />

178<br />

70<br />

59<br />

55<br />

113<br />

89<br />

77<br />

61<br />

74<br />

18<br />

71<br />

339<br />

113<br />

Animals/1000 Inhabitants 1<br />

630<br />

219<br />

1491<br />

184<br />

26<br />

526<br />

334<br />

487<br />

823<br />

109<br />

1776<br />

748<br />

943<br />

880<br />

1286<br />

90<br />

219<br />

1250<br />

1166<br />

802<br />

Chickens<br />

thousands<br />

1639<br />

3424<br />

3037<br />

1937<br />

2611<br />

1349<br />

3110<br />

2444<br />

1013<br />

1087<br />

7490<br />

1504<br />

2260<br />

2671<br />

5979<br />

6115<br />

3748<br />

1333<br />

1217<br />

3678<br />

Pigs Horses<br />

Mules<br />

Asses<br />

69<br />

203<br />

111<br />

159<br />

235<br />

292<br />

372<br />

206<br />

0<br />

1<br />

0<br />

0<br />

1<br />

0<br />

327<br />

28<br />

7<br />

0<br />

0<br />

73<br />

38<br />

6<br />

38<br />

7<br />

5<br />

14<br />

21<br />

18<br />

33<br />

40<br />

28<br />

63<br />

48<br />

43<br />

73<br />

3<br />

6<br />

26<br />

42<br />

30<br />

Buffalos<br />

& Camels<br />

Gross-Avg.: 129 695 2874 <strong>106</strong> 29 10<br />

1 Data elaborated from:<br />

<strong>UNEP</strong> Environmental Data Report 1989/90<br />

World Resource Institute Report 1988/89<br />

Accordingly, the following minimum estimates would result:<br />

Nitrogen :<br />

Phosphorus :<br />

t/year<br />

t/year<br />

Domestic and related (60%) : 470,000 100,000<br />

Animals : 120,000 to 600,000 4,000 to 20,000<br />

Total 590,000 to 1,070,000 104,000 to 120,000<br />

To these figures one would have to add a base export from land and unaccounted<br />

sources, which, however, would unlikely exceed an additional 25 to 35%. According to Vighi and<br />

Chiaudani (1987), the European average of diffused agricultural sources (fertilizers +<br />

background) amounts to 28% for phosphorus. Thus, the upper actual nitrogen export figures<br />

would fluctuate around some 1,450,000 t/year, and that of phosphorus around 175,000 t/year.<br />

1<br />

0<br />

0<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

2<br />

1<br />

6<br />

58<br />

50<br />

3<br />

25<br />

28<br />

0<br />

2<br />

0<br />

1<br />

13<br />

3

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