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The 10 Countries With the Most Species at Risk of Extinction |
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The IUCN Red List now counts 49,505 species threatened with extinction. The country with the most is not Brazil or Indonesia. It is Madagascar, an island nation off southeast Africa, with 4,078 — nearly 40% more than anywhere else. |
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Source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, version 2026-1 (updated 9 July 2026). Species rated Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable, by country. |
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| What's Surprising |
Madagascar’s lead comes from its plants. It has 3,095 threatened plant species. That alone is more than any other country’s threatened species of every kind. It also leads the world in threatened reptiles, with 138.
Ecuador is 30 times smaller than Brazil. It has 2,810 threatened species, just 27 fewer. Its 2,124 threatened plants outnumber those of the United States and China combined.
The United States ranks seventh. It leads the world in threatened molluscs, with 320, and threatened fungi, with 121. Greece, 18th, beats South Africa. More than half of its list is molluscs and other invertebrates.
| What's Not Surprising |
Isolation breeds species found nowhere else. Kew counts 11,516 native plants in Madagascar, and 82% of them are endemic. When a Malagasy forest goes, those species have no other home.
All ten countries are on Conservation International’s list of 17 “megadiverse” nations. Indonesia, second, has the most threatened mammals (227) and birds (146) of any country. The rich north barely registers. Germany: 293. United Kingdom: 233. Canada: 215. Norway: 164.
The count also measures effort. A species appears only once scientists assess it. In 2022, Kew estimated that just under half of Madagascar’s native plants had been formally assessed. The list will grow.
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4,078 Threatened species in Madagascar. Nearly twice the United States’ 2,184. |
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1 in 10 Of the world’s 30,262 threatened plant species, one in ten grows in Madagascar. |
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27 Ecuador’s gap behind Brazil, a country 30 times its size. Last year’s list had Ecuador third. |
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320 Threatened mollusc species in the United States, the most of any country. Greece is next, with 257. |
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28% Share of the 175,909 species the IUCN has assessed that are threatened with extinction: 49,505. |
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Governments meet in Yerevan, Armenia, from 19 to 30 October for COP17, the UN biodiversity summit, to push the 2030 targets agreed in Montreal in 2022. Each new batch of plant assessments can move this chart. Since last year’s list, Brazil has passed Ecuador and Indonesia has added 85 species. We’ll be watching. |
