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Lack of adaptation and mitigation measures for natural disasters and strong external food dependency are still significant challenges for the region. Physical access to food...

Girl’s education has improved: the parity index for the gross combined enrolment rate is over 0.98 in 14 Mediterranean countries. Source: https://www.obs.planbleu.org/wp-...

The Mediterranean average of literacy rate of young adults is 98% and above the world average (92%). Since 1990, the literacy rate of young adults has increased significantly in...

In 2018 (last updated data) the EU Mediterranean countries count for 75% of the Mediterranean GDP. In 2018, the average income per capita in the South and East Mediterranean...

The Human Development Index has constantly progressed in most Mediterranean countries since 1990. In 2020, with an average HDI of 0.794 in 2018, the Mediterranean region was...

The Human Development Index has constantly progressed in most Mediterranean countries since 1990. In 2020, with an average HDI of 0.794 in 2018, the Mediterranean region was...

"Biocapacity is the ecosystems’ capacity to produce biological materials used by people and to absorb waste material generated by humans, under current management schemes and...

In 2017 (last updated data), all Mediterranean countries had ecological deficit meaning that the environment capacity of the region is used up faster than it is renewed. Source:...

In 2018, there were a strong boost towards achieving the Aichi target 11 and the SDG 14 through the declaration of the Spanish cetacean corridor MAP. At the regional level 1.126...

In 2016, the overall situation is mixed: high waste generation is the North, high food part in the South and a low recycling rate at regional level. The total amount of...

Mediterranean countries lack sustainable and regular funding for biodiversity and ecosystem protection. In 2018, total official development assistance for biodiversity received...

The development of the UICN Green List aims to provide an accurate framework for protected area’s management. In 2019, 7 protected areas from North Africa were proposed for the...

The Mediterranean Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (MSESD) and its Action Plan was endorsed in 2014. The overall aim is to encourage the countries to develop...

The adoption and implementation for public access to information is heterogeneous is the Mediterranean. 8 countries (HR, GR, ES, SL, CY, MT, IT, AL) of the northern...

Since the beginning of XXI century, the amount of national public expenditures on R&D expressed as a % of GDP is increasing on most Mediterranean countries. In average,...

The domestic credit allocated to the private sector in % of GDP is varying across time and countries without any obvious trend. In the Mediterranean region, the share of...

The majority of countries have outdated or incomplete national green economy of sustainable development strategies. However most of the countries have launched Voluntary...

In the world, 53 sites are in danger and 28% (15) of these sites are in Mediterranean countries. All sites located in The Syrian Arab Republic, Libya and The State of Palestine...

Disparities exist between countries regarding the ratification of protocols. Morocco and the Syrian Arab Republic are the 2 contracting parties which have at least ratified the...

The percentage of stocks in overexploitation was around 65% in 2008. It culminated to around 88% from 2012 to 2014 and was close to 75% in 2018. Moreover, an increase in biomass...