Biodiversity: species on the Red List 2023

In 2023, around 75,000 species of vertebrates were known and 11,200 were endangered to become extinct. Furthermore, there were 425,000 plants discovered around the world of which 26,300 were endangered.

Number of species discovered in the world and the number of species on the Red List of Threatened Species in 2023, types of organisms

Characteristic	Estimated number of described species	Organisms on the Red List
Vertebrates	74,962	11,195
Invertebrates	1,480,351	6,221
Plant	425,035	26,276
Fungi & Protists	172,946	324

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2023

Supplementary notes

IUCN = International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
Organisms on the Red List are those categorized as: Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU).

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