2.8%
of land area
5.7%
of global population
5.0%
of food calories
5.4%
of key biodiversity areas
5.0%
of protected areas
3.0%
of carbon storage
Western European countries
Europe ranks fifth out of the eight regions for global population percentage and occupies the smallest percentage of global land area. With such small land area, it has the second smallest percentages of protected area and key biodiversity area. Europe ranks sixth out of the eight regions for caloric food production and seventh for vegetated carbon storage.