Table 5.

Statistics for the top 40 countries with the highest total bird occurrences in GBIF⁴⁰.

	Country	Occurrences (×106)	Orders	Species	Area* (km2) (×103)	Human population* (×106)	Occ./Order (×105)	Occ./area
1	Netherlands	52.7	32	971	42	17.7	16.5	1269
2	Denmark	34.5	33	978	43	5.9	10.5	804
3	Belgium	18.6	33	791	31	11.7	5.6	609
4	Taiwan	17.0	24	823	36	23.9	7.1	472
5	Costa Rica	21.1	31	1165	51	5.2	6.8	413
6	Belize	6.4	26	664	23	0.4	2.5	280
7	Israel	5.2	28	613	22	9.6	1.9	235
8	United Kingdom	48.2	33	1255	244	67.0	14.6	198
9	Sweden	87.2	31	765	529	10.5	28.1	165
10	Portugal	12.3	30	723	92	10.4	4.1	133
11	France	55.0	38	1128	549	68.0	14.5	100
12	USA	970.7	41	3241	9832	333.3	236.7	99
13	Panama	7.0	26	1179	75	4.4	2.7	92
14	Spain	44.0	37	983	506	47.8	11.9	87
15	Estonia	3.0	25	455	45	1.3	1.2	67
16	Finland	21.6	29	568	338	5.6	7.4	64
17	Norway	30.1	26	621	625	5.5	11.6	48
18	Germany	16.2	37	1753	358	83.8	4.4	45
19	Guatemala	4.2	25	911	109	17.4	1.7	39
20	Ecuador	9.4	30	1999	256	18.0	3.1	37
21	Czech Republic	2.9	27	466	79	10.7	1.1	36
22	Honduras	3.1	26	868	112	10.4	1.2	28
23	South Africa	32.3	31	1169	1219	59.9	10.4	26
24	New Zealand	6.7	25	548	268	5.1	2.7	25
25	Colombia	20.9	35	2315	1141	51.9	6.0	18
26	Poland	5.2	28	617	313	36.8	1.8	16
27	India	48.9	31	1727	3287	1417.2	15.8	15
28	Australia	82.5	33	1257	7741	26.0	25.0	11
29	Mexico	20.2	31	1504	1964	127.5	6.5	10
30	Thailand	5.1	24	1222	513	71.7	2.1	10
31	Canada	149.5	33	1148	15634	38.9	45.3	10
32	Chile	6.2	31	755	757	19.6	2.0	8
33	Japan	2.8	32	940	378	125.1	0.9	7
34	Kenya	3.8	29	1473	580	54.0	1.3	7
35	Peru	7.1	31	2230	1285	34.0	2.3	6
36	Argentina	12.3	30	1347	2780	46.2	4.1	4
37	Venezuela	3.4	29	1619	912	28.3	1.2	4
38	Brazil	18.1	36	2267	8516	215.3	5.0	2
39	China	3.2	29	1643	9563	1412.2	1.1	0
40	Russia	3.8	30	903	17098	144.2	1.3	0

This table includes data on the number of bird Orders and species recorded, the area of the country (in km²), and its human population. To control for the effects of taxonomic richness and the geographical area, the GBIF occurrences are also expressed as ratios: occurrences per Order and occurrences per km². *https://data.worldbank.org/. GBIF data accessed 7 July 2024.