The middle third of the world

A third of the world has a national global footprint around the average (between 3.0 global hectares down to 1.6). 33 countries have this footprint, ranging across the globe and accounting for around 33% of the world's population (among the 150 countries reporting for the footprint statistics).

They are as follows (footrint in global hectares per person):
Bulgaria 3.0
Croatia 3.0
Ukraine 2.9
Belize 2.8
Lebanon 2.8
Mongolia 2.7
Serbia and Montenegro 2.5
Malaysia 2.4
Mexico 2.4
South Africa 2.4
Iran 2.3
Venezuela 2.3
Argentina 2.2
Bosnia Herzegovina 2.2
Chile 2.2
Macedonia 2.2
Brazil 2.1
Romania 2.1
Uruguay 2.1
Bolivia 2.0
Costa Rica 2.0
Turkey 2.0
Paraguay 1.9
Mauritius 1.8
Uzbekistan 1.8
Cuba 1.7
Jamaica 1.7
Panama 1.7
Syria 1.7
China 1.6
Dominican Republic 1.6
Jordan 1.6
Mauritania 1.6

What can we learn from them - are there skills and ways of life which we should respect?

Incidently, the other two thirds are not evenly spread: one in five of the world's population is in the top 'third', with a footprint above 3 global hectares per person, whilst almost half (47%) of the world's population has a footprint of 1.5 global hectares per person or less.

(Data from WWF/reported in 2005, collected in 2002)