Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, C�te d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
The ECOWAS countries together contain only 2 percent of the world's forests. While only 12 percent of the combined land area is in forest, an additional 23 percent is in "other wooded land", which contributes to the production of various forest products, grazing and desertification control. "Trees outside the forest", e.g. in agroforestry systems, are also an important resource. Over 90 percent of the wood produced in ECOWAS countries is used as fuelwood and charcoal. Within ECOWAS, the most important producers of industrial wood products are Nigeria, C�te d'Ivoire and Ghana. ECOWAS accounts for only a minor share of world imports and exports of wood products.
|
Land area (thousand ha) |
605 537 |
Total forest area, 1995 (thousand ha) |
75 126 |
Percent of land in forest (%) |
12.4 |
Forest area per caput (ha) |
0.3 |
Annual change in forest area, 1990-1995 (thousand ha) |
- 693 |
Percent annual change, 1990-1995 (%) |
- 0.9 |
|
Product |
Quantity |
% of world total |
Fuelwood and charcoal |
191 711a |
10 |
Industrial roundwood |
17 360a |
1 |
Sawnwood |
4 310a |
1 |
Wood panels |
500a |
n.s. |
Pulp for paper |
7b |
n.s. |
Paper and paperboard |
57b |
n.s. |
|
Product |
Export value |
Import value |
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Export quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
Import quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
|
Fuelwood and charcoal |
107a |
3 701 |
1 |
n.s.a |
14 |
n.s. |
Industrial roundwood |
594a |
95 076 |
1 |
32a |
3 902 |
n.s. |
Sawnwood |
771a |
372 252 |
1 |
44a |
7 806 |
n.s. |
Wood panels |
147a |
82 357 |
n.s. |
42a |
14 045 |
n.s. |
Pulp for paper |
n.s.b |
254 |
n.s. |
8b |
4 361 |
n.s. |
Paper and paperboard |
n.s.b |
179 |
n.s. |
143b |
98 746 |
n.s. |
a Thousand m3.
b Thousand tonnes.