Armenia ranks 56th on the list of the cleanest countries in the world, according to the Environmental Performance Index 2022. The country has improved its position by 4.8 points over the last 10 years.
Armenia's neighbors Georgia is 103rd, Azerbaijan is 104th, Russia is 112th, Iran is 133rd and Turkey is 172nd out of 180 countries surveyed.
The Index is the result of a collaboration of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University, and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
The leaders of the ranking are Denmark, the United Kingdom and Finland. The outsiders are India, Myanmar and Vietnam.
The Environmental Performance Index measures a country's environmental and natural resource management accomplishments based on 22 indicators in 10 categories that reflect various aspects of the environment and the vitality of its ecological systems, biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, public health, economic activity and environmental stress, and government environmental policy effectiveness.
The Environmental Performance Index is updated on average once every 2 years, with the last update in September 2022, ARKA reports.
