Endemic species

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on La Lettura, the cultural supplement of Corriere Della Sera.
The visualization shows the number of endemic species by country across a range of taxonomic groups.
The selected countries are the top 30 ones across the world for total number of endemic species among the indicated groups, plus Italy. Countries are sorted in descending order by total number of endemic species (2020). "Endemic species are those that naturally occur in only one geographical locations."

Source: ourworldindata.org

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