The Maldives Islands can disappear in less than 100 years if climate change is not stopped. This is what the president of the archipelago has affirmed, Ibrahim Solih, before the Climate Summit in Glasgow.
It is precisely at this annual meeting where world leaders discuss the crucial moment of the environment, where the representative of the Maldives has asked for help from the richest countries so that his country does not disappear under the sea.
Maldives will disappear under the sea
“Our islands, one by one, are eaten by the sea. If we don’t reverse that trend, Maldives will cease to exist by the end of the century“Solih predicted. The archipelago faces a” death sentence “if it continues uncontrollably increasing the temperature of the planet.
“Last month I traveled to various regions of the Maldives, the six islands I visited are suffering severe erosion. It is just one example of how our population lives with the harsh reality that climate change represents, “he explained.
The president has also stressed that if we do not act globally, all countries together, the most vulnerable will disappear. In this, some islands bathed by the sea that erode them without restraint.
Maldives and pandemic tourism
Among the first countries to reopen its borders, the Maldives began allowing foreign tourists in July last year. The number of tourists visiting the Indian Ocean atoll nation rebounded to 500,000 last year after it reopened, and authorities are expecting 1.5 million vacationers this year, down slightly from 2019.
Maldives economic data
Maldives is the 162nd economy by volume of GDP. Its public debt in 2020 was 4,790 million euros, with a 146.05% of GDP debt It is among the countries with the most debt relative to GDP in the world. Its debt per capita is € 8,862 euros per inhabitant.
GDP per capita is a good indicator of the standard of living and in the case of Maldives, in 2020, it was € 6,054, which ranks 86th in the table, so its citizens have, according to this parameter, a very low standard of living in relation to the rest of the 196 countries in the per capita GDP ranking.
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