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1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants

Globally threatened vascular plants: IUCN category by country

Country

Ex

Ex/E

E

V

R

I

Total no. threatened ¹

No. species

% threatened

Afghanistan

1

1

2

4

4,000

0.1

Albania

1

3

1

73

2

79

3,031

2.6

Algeria

31

22

80

8

141

3,164

4.5

American Samoa

1

8

9

471

1.9

Angola

2

13

15

30

5,185

0.6

Antigua & Barbuda

1

2

3

845

0.4

Argentina

3

61

31

136

19

247

9,372

2.6

Armenia

31

31

Australia

71

246

630

1,366

3

2,245

15,638

14.4

Austria

1

1

1

20

1

23

3,100

0.7

Azerbaijan

1

1

2

24

28

Bahamas

2

2

4

23

31

1,111

2.8

Bangladesh

1

21

1

1

24

5,000

0.5

Barbados

2

2

572

0.3

Belarus

1

1

Belgium

1

1

2

1,550

0.1

Belize

5

9

37

6

57

2,894

2

Benin

2

1

1

4

2,201

0.2

Bermuda

3

5

5

10

167

6

Bhutan

1

1

6

10

5

23

5,468

0.4

Bolivia

1

90

38

88

11

227

17,367

1.3

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1

3

59

2

64

Botswana

6

1

7

2,151

0.3

Brazil

5

10

406

280

596

66

1,358

56,215

2.4

British Indian Ocean Ter.

1

1

101

1

Brunei Darussalam

11

6

8

25

6,000

0.4

Bulgaria

1

1

14

84

6

106

3,572

3

CIS ²

5

16

17

158

18

209

22,281

0.9

Cambodia

1

4

5

Cameroon

2

34

17

36

89

8,260

1.1

Canada

2

3

58

110

106

1

278

3,270

8.5

Cape Verde

1

1

774

0.1

Cayman Islands

1

6

2

2

2

13

539

2.4

Central African Republic

1

1

3,602

0

Chad

12

12

1,600

0.8

Chile

6

1

102

107

107

12

329

5,284

6.2

China

2

1

86

108

102

15

312

32,200

1

Christmas Island

1

1

2

10

1

15

Colombia

3

1

208

137

294

72

712

51,220

1.4

Comoros

2

1

1

4

721

0.6

Congo

1

2

3

6,000

0.1

Cook Islands

9

2

1

12

284

4.2

Costa Rica

2

3

103

179

217

25

527

12,119

4.3

Côte d'Ivoire

2

14

56

9

15

94

3,660

2.6

Croatia

2

4

6

Cuba

23

330

319

163

76

888

6,522

13.6

Cyprus

9

13

23

6

51

1,682

3

Czech Republic

2

3

7

13

13

81

Denmark

2

2

1,450

0.1

Djibouti

1

1

2

641

0.3

Dominica

6

4

26

21

57

1,228

4.6

Dominican Republic

27

17

45

47

136

5,657

2.4

Ecuador

4

121

214

439

50

824

19,362

4.3

Egypt

2

19

8

45

10

82

2,076

3.9

El Salvador

7

12

18

5

42

2,911

1.4

Equatorial Guinea

3

8

11

3,250

0.3

Estonia

1

1

2

Ethiopia

3

69

31

46

14

163

6,603

2.5

Falkland Islands

2

4

6

165

3.6

Fiji

7

18

25

22

2

74

1,518

4.9

Finland

1

4

1

6

1,102

0.5

France

7

3

21

81

83

7

195

4,630

4.2

French Guiana

1

15

15

67

98

5,625

1.7

French Polynesia

12

45

27

46

69

187

959

19.5

Gabon

6

40

45

91

6,651

1.4

Gambia

1

1

974

0.1

Georgia

2

27

29

Germany

3

3

2

5

4

14

2,682

0.5

Ghana

1

30

63

5

4

103

3,725

2.8

Gibraltar

3

1

4

Greece

6

1

28

80

430

32

571

4,992

11.4

Greenland

1

4

5

529

0.9

Grenada

1

1

6

8

1,068

0.7

Guadeloupe

5

5

13

3

26

1,400

1.9

Guam

7

2

4

5

18

330

5.5

Guatemala

4

42

74

165

70

355

8,681

4.1

Guinea

12

25

2

39

3,000

1.3

Guyana

27

26

99

152

6,409

2.4

Haiti

1

29

12

35

23

100

5,242

1.9

Honduras

1

2

16

23

40

15

96

5,680

1.7

Hong Kong

2

1

5

1

9

1,984

0.5

Hungary

3

7

16

4

30

2,214

1.4

Iceland

1

1

377

0.3

India

19

41

152

102

251

690

1,236

16,000

7.7

Indonesia

1

4

24

73

102

61

264

29,375

0.9

Iran

2

2

8,000

0

Ireland

1

1

950

0.1

Israel

2

7

7

13

3

32

2,317

1.4

Italy

1

29

80

190

12

311

5,599

5.6

Jamaica

142

220

334

48

744

3,308

22.5

Japan

5

3

63

171

435

35

707

5,565

12.7

Jordan

1

1

6

1

9

2,100

0.4

Kazakhstan

6

30

35

71

Kenya

3

31

79

97

30

240

6,506

3.7

Kyrgyzstan

1

5

28

34

Laos

2

2

Lebanon

1

2

1

2

5

3,000

0.2

Lesotho

1

2

14

4

21

1,591

1.3

Liberia

3

20

2

25

2,200

1.1

Libya

4

18

30

5

57

1,825

3.1

Liechtenstein

1

1

1

3

1,410

0.2

Lithuania

1

1

1

Luxembourg

1

1

1,246

0.1

Madagascar

19

91

57

85

54

306

9,505

3.2

Malawi

1

3

54

3

61

3,765

1.6

Malaysia

3

3

84

146

144

113

490

15,500

3.2

Mali

2

1

11

1

15

1,741

0.9

Malta

1

1

10

4

15

914

1.6

Martinique

4

8

7

19

6

44

1,287

3.4

Mauritania

3

3

1,100

0.3

Mauritius

47

6

118

72

96

2

294

750

39.2

Mexico

11

5

234

443

801

110

1,593

26,071

6.1

Micronesia

1

1

1

1

4

1,194

0.3

Moldova

2

3

5

Mongolia

0

2,272

0

Montserrat

1

1

2

671

0.3

Morocco

1

3

3

157

23

186

3,675

5.1

Mozambique

5

8

58

18

89

5,692

1.6

Myanmar

3

7

14

8

32

7,000

0.5

Namibia

4

5

56

10

75

3,174

2.4

Nepal

2

5

10

3

20

6,973

0.3

Netherlands

1

1

1,221

0.1

Netherlands Antilles

1

1

2

New Caledonia

5

5

160

214

91

10

480

3,322

14.4

New Zealand

7

42

42

115

12

211

2,382

8.9

Nicaragua

2

19

32

37

8

98

7,590

1.3

Nigeria

18

16

1

2

37

4,715

0.8

Niue

1

1

178

0.6

Norfolk Island

2

11

7

21

1

40

North Korea

4

4

2,898

0.1

Northern Mariana Islands

5

1

2

3

11

315

3.5

Norway

3

9

12

1,715

0.7

Oman

2

13

1

14

30

1,204

2.5

Pakistan

2

2

2

5

5

14

4,950

0.3

Panama

602

420

217

63

1,302

9,915

13.1

Papua New Guinea

2

9

58

23

92

11,544

0.8

Paraguay

21

25

79

4

129

7,851

1.6

Peru

3

4

354

218

290

40

906

18,245

5

Philippines

4

5

60

47

244

360

8,931

4

Pitcairn

2

11

1

14

76

18.4

Poland

1

1

1

10

10

5

27

2,450

1.1

Portugal

2

46

113

98

12

269

5,050

5.3

Puerto Rico

4

97

71

40

11

223

2,493

8.9

Réunion

6

1

29

40

24

5

99

546

18.1

Romania

11

14

67

7

99

3,400

2.9

Russian Federation ²

1

3

3

18

96

94

214

St. Vincent & Grenadines

3

5

1

9

1,166

0.8

São Tomé & Príncipe

1

1

1

3

895

0.3

Saudi Arabia

5

1

1

7

2,028

0.3

Senegal

28

3

31

2,086

1.5

Seychelles

5

21

30

11

11

78

250

31.2

Sierra Leone

2

15

11

1

29

2,090

1.4

Singapore

1

4

7

8

10

29

2,168

1.3

Slovakia

1

1

17

18

29

65

Slovenia

2

11

13

Solomon Islands

3

33

6

42

3,172

1.3

Somalia

7

23

58

15

103

3,028

3.4

South Africa

53

226

368

1,264

357

2,215

23,420

9.5

South Korea

1

9

2

55

66

2,898

2.3

Spain

3

3

185

272

484

41

985

5,050

19.5

Sri Lanka

1

1

69

68

81

236

455

3,314

13.7

St Kitts & Nevis

3

1

4

659

0.6

St Lucia

5

1

6

1,028

0.6

St. Helena

11

3

22

2

27

14

68

165

41.2

St. Pierre & Miquelon

2

2

1

5

Sudan

1

3

1

5

10

3,137

0.3

Suriname

13

10

79

1

103

5,018

2.1

Swaziland

1

9

9

17

6

42

2,715

1.5

Sweden

3

10

13

1,750

0.7

Switzerland

1

4

21

5

30

3,030

1

Syria

2

5

3

8

3,000

0.3

Taiwan

19

32

251

23

325

3,568

9.1

Tajikistan

1

3

2

45

50

Tanzania

1

14

63

103

256

436

10,008

4.4

Thailand

27

21

33

304

385

11,625

3.3

Togo

4

4

2,201

0.2

Tonga

1

1

2

463

0.4

Trinidad & Tobago

2

3

5

11

21

2,259

0.9

Tunisia

1

18

5

24

2,196

1.1

Turkey

10

1

47

167

1,608

53

1,876

8,650

21.7

Turkmenistan

2

1

14

17

Turks & Caicos Islands

2

2

448

0.4

USA

22

181

1,178

1,783

1,495

32

4,669

19,473

24

Uganda

2

8

3

2

15

5,406

0.3

Ukraine

1

7

2

14

28

52

United Kingdom

1

1

3

14

18

1,623

1.1

Uruguay

9

2

4

15

2,278

0.7

Uzbekistan

3

3

35

41

Vanuatu

3

1

20

2

26

870

3

Venezuela

135

65

212

14

426

21,073

2

Viet Nam

2

6

25

301

7

341

10,500

3.2

Virgin Islands (British)

4

3

6

1

14

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

1

10

12

15

2

40

Western Samoa

17

1

18

737

2.4

Yemen

1

33

28

55

32

149

1,650

9

Yugoslavia (former)²

1

1

6

143

5

155

5,351

2.9

Zaire

2

5

67

4

78

11,007

0.7

Zambia

2

9

1

12

4,747

0.3

Zimbabwe

4

11

58

27

100

4,440

2.3

¹		Total number threatened includes Ex/E, E, V, R and I, but excludes Ex.
²		Figures for the former USSR and former Yugoslavia have only been partially rationalised to bring them in line with current political boundaries.

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Country	Ex	Ex/E	E	V	R	I	Total no. threatened ¹	No. species	% threatened
Afghanistan			1	1	2		4	4,000	0.1
Albania	1	3	1		73	2	79	3,031	2.6
Algeria			31	22	80	8	141	3,164	4.5
American Samoa				1	8		9	471	1.9
Angola				2	13	15	30	5,185	0.6
Antigua & Barbuda			1		2		3	845	0.4
Argentina	3		61	31	136	19	247	9,372	2.6
Armenia						31	31
Australia	71		246	630	1,366	3	2,245	15,638	14.4
Austria	1		1	1	20	1	23	3,100	0.7
Azerbaijan		1	1		2	24	28
Bahamas		2		2	4	23	31	1,111	2.8
Bangladesh		1		21	1	1	24	5,000	0.5
Barbados			2				2	572	0.3
Belarus						1	1
Belgium		1	1				2	1,550	0.1
Belize			5	9	37	6	57	2,894	2
Benin				2	1	1	4	2,201	0.2
Bermuda	3		5		5		10	167	6
Bhutan		1	1	6	10	5	23	5,468	0.4
Bolivia	1		90	38	88	11	227	17,367	1.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1			3	59	2	64
Botswana					6	1	7	2,151	0.3
Brazil	5	10	406	280	596	66	1,358	56,215	2.4
British Indian Ocean Ter.						1	1	101	1
Brunei Darussalam				11	6	8	25	6,000	0.4
Bulgaria		1	1	14	84	6	106	3,572	3
CIS ²	5		16	17	158	18	209	22,281	0.9
Cambodia			1	4			5
Cameroon			2	34	17	36	89	8,260	1.1
Canada	2	3	58	110	106	1	278	3,270	8.5
Cape Verde				1			1	774	0.1
Cayman Islands		1	6	2	2	2	13	539	2.4
Central African Republic						1	1	3,602	0
Chad					12		12	1,600	0.8
Chile	6	1	102	107	107	12	329	5,284	6.2
China	2	1	86	108	102	15	312	32,200	1
Christmas Island		1	1	2	10	1	15
Colombia	3	1	208	137	294	72	712	51,220	1.4
Comoros			2	1		1	4	721	0.6
Congo				1	2		3	6,000	0.1
Cook Islands			9	2		1	12	284	4.2
Costa Rica	2	3	103	179	217	25	527	12,119	4.3
Côte d'Ivoire	2		14	56	9	15	94	3,660	2.6
Croatia				2	4		6
Cuba	23		330	319	163	76	888	6,522	13.6
Cyprus			9	13	23	6	51	1,682	3
Czech Republic	2		3	7	13	13	81
Denmark					2		2	1,450	0.1
Djibouti			1			1	2	641	0.3
Dominica			6	4	26	21	57	1,228	4.6
Dominican Republic			27	17	45	47	136	5,657	2.4
Ecuador	4		121	214	439	50	824	19,362	4.3
Egypt	2		19	8	45	10	82	2,076	3.9
El Salvador			7	12	18	5	42	2,911	1.4
Equatorial Guinea				3	8		11	3,250	0.3
Estonia			1			1	2
Ethiopia		3	69	31	46	14	163	6,603	2.5
Falkland Islands			2		4		6	165	3.6
Fiji		7	18	25	22	2	74	1,518	4.9
Finland				1	4	1	6	1,102	0.5
France	7	3	21	81	83	7	195	4,630	4.2
French Guiana		1	15	15	67		98	5,625	1.7
French Polynesia	12		45	27	46	69	187	959	19.5
Gabon				6	40	45	91	6,651	1.4
Gambia					1		1	974	0.1
Georgia					2	27	29
Germany	3		3	2	5	4	14	2,682	0.5
Ghana		1	30	63	5	4	103	3,725	2.8
Gibraltar				3	1		4
Greece	6	1	28	80	430	32	571	4,992	11.4
Greenland				1	4		5	529	0.9
Grenada			1	1	6		8	1,068	0.7
Guadeloupe			5	5	13	3	26	1,400	1.9
Guam			7	2	4	5	18	330	5.5
Guatemala		4	42	74	165	70	355	8,681	4.1
Guinea				12	25	2	39	3,000	1.3
Guyana			27	26	99		152	6,409	2.4
Haiti		1	29	12	35	23	100	5,242	1.9
Honduras	1	2	16	23	40	15	96	5,680	1.7
Hong Kong			2	1	5	1	9	1,984	0.5
Hungary			3	7	16	4	30	2,214	1.4
Iceland					1		1	377	0.3
India	19	41	152	102	251	690	1,236	16,000	7.7
Indonesia	1	4	24	73	102	61	264	29,375	0.9
Iran					2		2	8,000	0
Ireland					1		1	950	0.1
Israel		2	7	7	13	3	32	2,317	1.4
Italy	1		29	80	190	12	311	5,599	5.6
Jamaica			142	220	334	48	744	3,308	22.5
Japan	5	3	63	171	435	35	707	5,565	12.7
Jordan			1	1	6	1	9	2,100	0.4
Kazakhstan		6			30	35	71
Kenya		3	31	79	97	30	240	6,506	3.7
Kyrgyzstan				1	5	28	34
Laos					2		2
Lebanon	1		2		1	2	5	3,000	0.2
Lesotho			1	2	14	4	21	1,591	1.3
Liberia			3	20		2	25	2,200	1.1
Libya			4	18	30	5	57	1,825	3.1
Liechtenstein			1		1	1	3	1,410	0.2
Lithuania	1					1	1
Luxembourg			1				1	1,246	0.1
Madagascar		19	91	57	85	54	306	9,505	3.2
Malawi			1	3	54	3	61	3,765	1.6
Malaysia	3	3	84	146	144	113	490	15,500	3.2
Mali			2	1	11	1	15	1,741	0.9
Malta	1			1	10	4	15	914	1.6
Martinique		4	8	7	19	6	44	1,287	3.4
Mauritania					3		3	1,100	0.3
Mauritius	47	6	118	72	96	2	294	750	39.2
Mexico	11	5	234	443	801	110	1,593	26,071	6.1
Micronesia			1	1	1	1	4	1,194	0.3
Moldova					2	3	5
Mongolia							0	2,272	0
Montserrat			1		1		2	671	0.3
Morocco	1		3	3	157	23	186	3,675	5.1
Mozambique			5	8	58	18	89	5,692	1.6
Myanmar			3	7	14	8	32	7,000	0.5
Namibia			4	5	56	10	75	3,174	2.4
Nepal			2	5	10	3	20	6,973	0.3
Netherlands				1			1	1,221	0.1
Netherlands Antilles			1		1		2
New Caledonia	5	5	160	214	91	10	480	3,322	14.4
New Zealand	7		42	42	115	12	211	2,382	8.9
Nicaragua		2	19	32	37	8	98	7,590	1.3
Nigeria			18	16	1	2	37	4,715	0.8
Niue				1			1	178	0.6
Norfolk Island	2		11	7	21	1	40
North Korea					4		4	2,898	0.1
Northern Mariana Islands			5	1	2	3	11	315	3.5
Norway				3	9		12	1,715	0.7
Oman			2	13	1	14	30	1,204	2.5
Pakistan	2		2	2	5	5	14	4,950	0.3
Panama			602	420	217	63	1,302	9,915	13.1
Papua New Guinea			2	9	58	23	92	11,544	0.8
Paraguay			21	25	79	4	129	7,851	1.6
Peru	3	4	354	218	290	40	906	18,245	5
Philippines		4	5	60	47	244	360	8,931	4
Pitcairn			2	11		1	14	76	18.4
Poland	1	1	1	10	10	5	27	2,450	1.1
Portugal	2		46	113	98	12	269	5,050	5.3
Puerto Rico		4	97	71	40	11	223	2,493	8.9
Réunion	6	1	29	40	24	5	99	546	18.1
Romania			11	14	67	7	99	3,400	2.9
Russian Federation ²	1	3	3	18	96	94	214
St. Vincent & Grenadines			3		5	1	9	1,166	0.8
São Tomé & Príncipe		1		1	1		3	895	0.3
Saudi Arabia				5	1	1	7	2,028	0.3
Senegal					28	3	31	2,086	1.5
Seychelles		5	21	30	11	11	78	250	31.2
Sierra Leone			2	15	11	1	29	2,090	1.4
Singapore	1		4	7	8	10	29	2,168	1.3
Slovakia	1		1	17	18	29	65
Slovenia				2	11		13
Solomon Islands				3	33	6	42	3,172	1.3
Somalia			7	23	58	15	103	3,028	3.4
South Africa	53		226	368	1,264	357	2,215	23,420	9.5
South Korea	1		9	2	55		66	2,898	2.3
Spain	3	3	185	272	484	41	985	5,050	19.5
Sri Lanka	1	1	69	68	81	236	455	3,314	13.7
St Kitts & Nevis			3		1		4	659	0.6
St Lucia			5		1		6	1,028	0.6
St. Helena	11	3	22	2	27	14	68	165	41.2
St. Pierre & Miquelon				2	2	1	5
Sudan			1	3	1	5	10	3,137	0.3
Suriname			13	10	79	1	103	5,018	2.1
Swaziland		1	9	9	17	6	42	2,715	1.5
Sweden				3	10		13	1,750	0.7
Switzerland	1		4		21	5	30	3,030	1
Syria	2		5		3		8	3,000	0.3
Taiwan			19	32	251	23	325	3,568	9.1
Tajikistan	1	3			2	45	50
Tanzania	1		14	63	103	256	436	10,008	4.4
Thailand			27	21	33	304	385	11,625	3.3
Togo				4			4	2,201	0.2
Tonga				1	1		2	463	0.4
Trinidad & Tobago			2	3	5	11	21	2,259	0.9
Tunisia			1		18	5	24	2,196	1.1
Turkey	10	1	47	167	1,608	53	1,876	8,650	21.7
Turkmenistan		2			1	14	17
Turks & Caicos Islands					2		2	448	0.4
USA	22	181	1,178	1,783	1,495	32	4,669	19,473	24
Uganda			2	8	3	2	15	5,406	0.3
Ukraine		1	7	2	14	28	52
United Kingdom	1		1	3	14		18	1,623	1.1
Uruguay			9	2	4		15	2,278	0.7
Uzbekistan		3			3	35	41
Vanuatu			3	1	20	2	26	870	3
Venezuela			135	65	212	14	426	21,073	2
Viet Nam		2	6	25	301	7	341	10,500	3.2
Virgin Islands (British)			4	3	6	1	14
Virgin Islands (U.S.)		1	10	12	15	2	40
Western Samoa					17	1	18	737	2.4
Yemen		1	33	28	55	32	149	1,650	9
Yugoslavia (former)²	1		1	6	143	5	155	5,351	2.9
Zaire			2	5	67	4	78	11,007	0.7
Zambia			2		9	1	12	4,747	0.3
Zimbabwe			4	11	58	27	100	4,440	2.3