Elephant Database
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1998 Regional Totals for West Africa

All Years for West Africa: 201620132007200219981995

1998 Summary Totals for West Africa

Data Category Definite Probable Possible Speculative
Aerial or Ground Total Counts51000
Aerial or Ground Sample Counts2,1676446440
Informed Guesses27105,584699
Other Guesses0002,743
Total2,4896446,2283,442

No changes between current and previous report.

Elephant Estimates

CountryDefiniteProbablePossibleSpeculativeRange Area (km²)% of Regional Range% of Range AssessedIQI1PFS2
Benin00400013,036655 .003
Burkina Faso1,6166061,486018,198972 .433
Côte d'Ivoire51049564535,5431751 .022
Ghana4762181,18544330,2021442 .132
Guinea001081402,277114 .003
Guinea Bissau0003533100 .004
Liberia0001,78322,003104 .002
Mali009505037,02417100 .002
Niger008171002,694187 .003
Nigeria157086023634,3831657 .072
Senegal9011108,4284100 .303
Sierra Leone00002,91410 .003
Togo009605,4303100 .003
Totals2,4896446,2283,442212,463459 .143

1IQI: Information Quality Index: This index quantifies overall data quality at the regional level based on the precision of estimates and the proportion of assessed elephant range (i.e. range for which estimates are available). The IQI ranges from zero (no reliable information) to one (perfect information).

2PFS: Priority for Future Surveys, ranked from 1 to 5 (highest to lowest). Based on the precision of estimates and the proportion of national range accounted for by the site in question, PFS is a measure of the importance and urgency for future population surveys. All areas of unassessed range have a priority of 1. See Introduction for details on how the PFS is derived.

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