Countries where Leaded Petrol is Possibly Still Sold for Road Use, As at 22nd February 2007

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Countries where Leaded Petrol is Possibly Still Sold for Road Use,
As at 22^nd February 2007

Compiled by Elizabeth O’Brien, President, The LEAD Group Inc

Europe, C.I.S.

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kazakhstan
Macedonia, the FYR of
Serbia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Asia

Korea, Dem. People’s Rep of (N. Korea)

Africa

Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Western Sahara

Middle East

Afghanistan
Iraq
Jordan
Palestine
Yemen

Countries where Leaded Petrol is Possibly Still Sold for Road Use,
As at 22^nd February 2007

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Afghanistan
Algeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iraq
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea, Dem. People’s Rep of (N. Korea)
Macedonia, the FYR of
Morocco

Palestine
Serbia
Tajikistan
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Western Sahara
Yemen

IN POPULATION ORDER
33,241,259	Morocco
32,930,091	Algeria
31,056,997	Afghanistan
27,307,134	Uzbekistan
26,783,383	Iraq
23,113,019	Korea, Dem. People’s Rep of (North. Korea)
21,456,188	Yemen
15,233,244	Kazakhstan
10,175,014	Tunisia
9,396,411	Serbia
7,320,815	Tajikistan
5,906,760	Jordan
5,042,920	Turkmenistan
4,498,976	Bosnia and Herzegovina
3,889,249	Palestine*
273,008	Western Sahara
60,422	Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
257,684,890	TOTAL POPULATION DIRECTLY AFFECTED

*The population figure for Palestine is a sum of the population of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

REFERENCES:

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) (2006-7) Country Population data downloaded from https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html (Accessed 21st February 2007)

IFQC (International Fuel Quality Center) (2007) personal communication to The LEAD Group re: phaseout of leaded petrol in Indonesia in late 2006, by email 7^th February 2007.

PAS (Petroleum Advisory Services) Trade and Investment Division, Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (2003) “Pacific Fuel Price Monitor - lists retail prices of all fuel types sold in Pacific Island States [but does not list any sales of leaded petrol]” 30^th May 2003 http://www.forumsec.org/UserFiles/File/PFPM_Ed_04.pdf

PCFV (Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (2006) “Status of Leaded Gasoline Phase-out in Middle East, West Asia & North Africa [Map] July 2006” http://www.unep.org/pcfv/Documents/MapMenawaLead-Jul2006.pdf; “Asia-Pacific Lead Matrix regarding phase-out of leaded gasoline – Last updated January 18 2006” www.unep.org/pcfv/Documents/LeadMatrix-Asia-Pacific.pdf; “Latin America and The Carribean Lead Matrix regarding phase-out of leaded gasoline - Last updated July 2006”, http://www.unep.org/pcfv/Documents/MatrixLACLeadjul06.pdf; “Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia Lead Matrix regarding phase-out of leaded gasoline - Last updated Sept 2006” http://www.unep.org/pcfv/Documents/MatrixCEELeadSept06.pdf

PCFV (2007) Personal communication to the LEAD Group from the Partnership for Cleaner Fuels & Vehicles (PCFV), Urban Environment Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), by email 12^th February 2007, confirmed that Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Rep (Laos), Maldives and Moldova are now unleaded only (for road use) and that it is very probable that French Guiana, Myanmar (Burma) and Mongolia are also now unleaded only (for road use).

TLG (The LEAD Group) (2005) “Countries possibly still to ban leaded petrol as at 20^th Oct 2005” http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst27superseded.html

UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Chemicals, Global Environment Facility (2002) Pacific Islands REGIONAL REPORT: Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances states: “leaded petrol was phased out in the US Territories in the early 1980's and from the rest of the independent states during the 1990's", December 2002 http://www.chem.unep.ch/Pts/regreports/PacificIslands.pdf