Israel has recently begun to develop environmental and sustainable development indicators. These indicators are meant to increase public awareness of the state of the environment in Israel, on the one hand, and to communicate information to decision makers on environmental and sustainable development trends, on the other hand.
Environmental and sustainable development indicators are being developed in Israel in different frameworks. Dozens of indicators have already been prepared with the assistance of the Central Bureau of Statistics and are included in the Statistical Yearbook of Israel which is available online.
Based on the publication The Environment in Israel 2002, environmental indicators in several key areas have been compiled. The graphs included in the following sections are meant to provide a general view of the state of the environment in Israel. For further information on each subject (with the exception of population growth), please refer to the relevant section in Environmental Topics.
