TABLE 3 Forest types, volume and biomass
Country/area	Forest types (% of country's forest area)				Wood volume in forests		Wood biomass in forests
	Tropical	Subtropical	Temperate	Boreal/polar	(m3/ha)	Total (million m3)	(tonnes/ha)	Total (million tonnes)
Africa	98	1	0	0	72	46 472	109	70 917
Algeria	0	100	0	0	44	94	75	160
Angola	100	0	0	0	39	2 714	54	3 774
Benin	100	0	0	0	140	371	195	518
Botswana	100	0	0	0	45	560	63	779
Burkina Faso	100	0	0	0	10	74	16	113
Burundi	100	0	0	0	110	10	187	18
Cameroon	100	0	0	0	135	3 211	131	3 129
Cape Verde	100	0	0	0	83	7	127	11
Central African Republic	100	0	0	0	85	1 937	113	2 583
Chad	100	0	0	0	11	134	16	205
Comoros	100	0	0	0	60	0	65	1
Congo	100	0	0	0	132	2 916	213	4 699
Côte d'Ivoire	100	0	0	0	133	948	130	924
Dem. Rep. of the Congo	100	0	0	0	133	17 932	225	30 403
Djibouti	100	0	0	0	21	0	46	0
Egypt	0	100	0	0	108	8	106	8
Equatorial Guinea	100	0	0	0	93	163	158	277
Eritrea	100	0	0	0	23	36	32	50
Ethiopia	100	0	0	0	56	259	79	363
Gabon	100	0	0	0	128	2 791	137	2 991
Gambia	100	0	0	0	13	6	22	11
Ghana	100	0	0	0	49	311	88	556
Guinea	100	0	0	0	117	808	114	788
Guinea-Bissau	100	0	0	0	19	41	20	44
Kenya	100	0	0	0	35	593	48	826
Lesotho	0	100	0	0	34	0	34	0
Liberia	100	0	0	0	201	699	196	681
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	0	100	0	0	14	5	20	7
Madagascar	100	0	0	0	114	1 339	194	2 270
Malawi	100	0	0	0	103	264	143	365
Mali	100	0	0	0	22	289	31	402
Mauritania	100	0	0	0	4	1	6	2
Mauritius	100	0	0	0	88	1	95	2
Morocco	0	100	0	0	27	80	41	123
Mozambique	100	0	0	0	25	774	55	1 683
Namibia	100	0	0	0	7	54	12	94
Niger	100	0	0	0	3	4	4	6
Nigeria	100	0	0	0	82	1 115	184	2 493
Réunion	100	0	0	0	115	8	160	11
Rwanda	100	0	0	0	110	34	187	58
Saint Helena	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	100	0	0	0	108	3	116	3
Senegal	100	0	0	0	31	192	30	187
Seychelles	100	0	0	0	29	1	49	1
Sierra Leone	100	0	0	0	143	151	139	147
Somalia	100	0	0	0	18	138	26	192
South Africa	68	32	0	0	49	437	81	720
Sudan	100	0	0	0	9	531	12	740
Swaziland	86	14	0	0	39	20	115	60
Togo	100	0	0	0	92	47	155	79
Tunisia	0	100	0	0	18	9	27	14
Uganda	100	0	0	0	133	559	163	681
United Republic of Tanzania	100	0	0	0	43	1 676	60	2 333
Western Sahara	100	0	0	0	18	3	59	9
Zambia	100	0	0	0	43	1 347	104	3 262
Zimbabwe	100	0	0	0	40	765	56	1 065
Asia	61	23	14	2	63	34 506	82	45 062
Afghanistan	0	100	0	0	22	30	27	37
Armenia	0	61	39	0	128	45	66	23
Azerbaijan	0	38	62	0	136	149	105	115
Bahrain	0	100	0	0	14	-	14	-
Bangladesh	100	0	0	0	23	31	39	52
Bhutan	69	31	0	0	163	492	178	537
Brunei Darussalam	100	0	0	0	119	52	205	90
Cambodia	100	0	0	0	40	376	69	648
China	3	59	29	8	52	8 437	61	10 038
Cyprus	0	100	0	0	43	7	21	4
Dem. People's Rep. of Korea	0	0	100	0	41	333	25	209
Gaza Strip	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Georgia	0	41	59	0	145	434	97	291
India	95	5	0	0	43	2 730	73	4 706
Indonesia	100	0	0	0	79	8 242	136	14 226
Iran, Islamic Rep. of	0	98	2	0	86	631	149	1 089
Iraq	0	100	0	0	29	23	28	22
Israel	0	100	0	0	49	6	-	-
Japan	0	54	46	0	145	3 485	88	2 128
Jordan	0	100	0	0	38	3	37	3
Kazakhstan	0	0	83	17	35	428	18	214
Kuwait	0	100	0	0	21	0	21	0
Kyrgyzstan	0	0	100	0	32	32	-	-
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	100	0	0	0	29	359	31	391
Lebanon	0	100	0	0	23	1	22	1
Malaysia	100	0	0	0	119	2 288	205	3 949
Maldives	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Mongolia	0	0	100	0	128	1 359	80	853
Myanmar	99	1	0	0	33	1 137	57	1 965
Nepal	58	42	0	0	100	391	109	427
Oman	100	0	0	0	17	0	17	0
Pakistan	2	98	0	0	22	53	27	64
Philippines	100	0	0	0	66	383	114	661
Qatar	0	100	0	0	13	0	12	0
Republic of Korea	0	15	85	0	58	362	36	227
Saudi Arabia	91	9	0	0	12	18	12	18
Singapore	100	0	0	0	119	0	205	0
Sri Lanka	100	0	0	0	34	66	59	114
Syrian Arab Republic	0	100	0	0	29	13	28	13
Tajikistan	0	0	100	0	14	6	10	4
Thailand	100	0	0	0	17	252	29	434
Timor-Leste	100	0	0	0	79	40	136	69
Turkey	0	92	8	0	136	1 386	74	754
Turkmenistan	0	4	96	0	4	14	3	10
United Arab Emirates	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Uzbekistan	0	0	100	0	6	11	-	-
Viet Nam	98	2	0	0	38	372	66	643
West Bank	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Yemen	100	0	0	0	14	6	19	9
Europe	0	5	22	73	112	116 448	59	61 070
Albania	0	83	17	0	81	80	58	57
Andorra	0	0	100	0	0	-	0	-
Austria	0	0	100	0	286	1 110	250	970
Belarus	0	0	100	0	153	1 436	80	755
Belgium and Luxembourg	0	0	100	0	218	159	101	74
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	19	81	0	110	250	-	-
Bulgaria	0	6	94	0	130	480	76	279
Croatia	0	28	71	0	201	358	107	190
Czech Republic	0	0	100	0	260	684	125	329
Denmark	0	0	100	0	124	56	58	26
Estonia	0	0	100	0	156	321	85	175
Finland	0	0	2	98	89	1 945	50	1 089
France	0	0	100	0	191	2 927	92	1 418
Germany	0	0	100	0	268	2 880	134	1 440
Greece	0	97	3	0	45	163	25	90
Hungary	0	0	100	0	174	320	112	207
Iceland	0	0	0	100	27	1	17	1
Ireland	0	0	100	0	74	49	25	16
Italy	0	84	16	0	145	1 450	74	742
Latvia	0	0	100	0	174	509	93	272
Liechtenstein	0	0	100	0	254	2	119	1
Lithuania	0	0	100	0	183	366	99	197
Malta	0	100	0	0	232	0	-	-
Netherlands	0	0	100	0	160	60	107	40
Norway	0	0	7	93	89	785	49	432
Poland	0	0	100	0	213	1 930	94	851
Portugal	0	81	19	0	82	299	33	120
Republic of Moldova	0	0	100	0	128	42	64	21
Romania	0	0	100	0	213	1373	124	801
Russian Federation	0	0	14	86	105	89 136	56	47 423
San Marino	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	-
Slovakia	0	0	100	0	253	552	142	308
Slovenia	0	12	88	0	283	313	178	197
Spain	0	80	20	0	44	632	24	347
Sweden	0	0	28	72	107	2 914	63	1 722
Switzerland	0	0	100	0	337	404	165	198
The FYR of Macedonia	0	64	36	0	70	63	-	-
Ukraine	0	0	100	0	179	1 719	-	-
United Kingdom	0	0	87	13	128	359	76	213
Yugoslavia	0	16	84	0	111	321	23	67
North and Central America	15	16	29	40	123	67 329	95	52 357
Antigua and Barbuda	100	0	0	0	116	1	210	2
Bahamas	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Barbados	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Belize	100	0	0	0	202	272	211	284
Bermuda	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
British Virgin Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Canada	0	0	26	74	120	29 364	83	20 240
Cayman Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Costa Rica	100	0	0	0	211	414	220	433
Cuba	100	0	0	0	71	167	114	268
Dominica	100	0	0	0	91	4	166	8
Dominican Republic	100	0	0	0	29	40	53	73
El Salvador	100	0	0	0	223	27	202	24
Greenland	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Grenada	100	0	0	0	83	0	150	1
Guadeloupe	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Guatemala	100	0	0	0	355	1 012	371	1 057
Haiti	100	0	0	0	28	2	101	9
Honduras	100	0	0	0	58	311	105	566
Jamaica	100	0	0	0	82	27	171	56
Martinique	100	0	0	0	5	0	5	0
Mexico	70	30	0	0	52	2 871	54	2 981
Montserrat	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Netherlands Antilles	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Nicaragua	100	0	0	0	154	506	161	528
Panama	100	0	0	0	308	887	322	926
Puerto Rico	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Saint Kitts and Nevis	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Saint Lucia	100	0	0	0	190	2	198	2
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	100	-	-	-	-
Saint Vincent and Grenadines	100	0	0	0	166	1	173	1
Trinidad and Tobago	100	0	0	0	71	18	129	33
United States	0	37	48	15	136	30 838	108	24 428
United States Virgin Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Oceania	62	30	8	0	55	10 771	64	12 640
American Samoa	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Australia	54	38	8	0	55	8 506	57	8 840
Cook Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Fiji	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
French Polynesia	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Guam	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Kiribati	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Marshall Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Micronesia	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Nauru	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
New Caledonia	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
New Zealand	0	51	49	0	125	992	217	1 726
Niue	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Northern Mariana Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Palau	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Papua New Guinea	100	0	0	0	34	1 025	58	1 784
Samoa	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Solomon Islands	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Tonga	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
Vanuatu	100	0	0	0	-	-	-	-
South America	96	2	1	0	125	110 826	203	180 210
Argentina	91	5	4	0	25	866	68	2 356
Bolivia	100	0	0	0	114	6 050	183	9 711
Brazil	98	2	0	0	131	71 252	209	113 676
Chile	0	54	45	0	160	2 486	268	4 164
Colombia	100	0	0	0	108	5 359	196	9 722
Ecuador	100	0	0	0	121	1 275	151	1 594
Falkland Islands	0	0	100	0	-	-	-	-
French Guiana	100	0	0	0	145	1 151	253	2 003
Guyana	100	0	0	0	145	2 451	253	4 264
Paraguay	100	0	0	0	34	792	59	1 379
Peru	100	0	0	0	158	10 304	245	15 978
Suriname	100	0	0	0	145	2 049	253	3 566
Uruguay	0	100	0	0	-	-	-	-
Venezuela	100	0	0	0	134	6 629	233	11 535
World	52	9	13	25	100	386 352	109	422 256

Note: The regional breakdown reflects geographic rather than economic or political groupings.