Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Volume I - Socio-Economic, Resources and Non-Wood Products Statistics













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by

Qiang Ma

Forestry Officer (Econometrics) Forestry Planning and Statistics Branch Forestry Policy and Planning Division Forestry Department

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY TOWARDS 2010

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/43

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
April 1999

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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Purpose
Sources of data
Classifications and definitions
Scope

Volume I - Socio-Economic, Resources and Non-Wood Products Statistics
Volume II - Wood Products Statistics

Invitation to provide better data

LIST OF COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES INCLUDED IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

I - SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC

Macroeconomic data

GDP at market prices
Per caput GDP at market prices (constant 1987)
GDP growth (annual %)
GDP deflator (1987=100)
Total consumption (constant 1987 US$)
Gross domestic investment (constant 1987 US$)
Gross domestic fixed investment (constant 1987 US$)
Gross domestic savings (constant 1987 US$)
Merchandise exports (constant 1987 US$)
Merchandise imports (constant 1987 US$)
Total population

Population and Employment

Rural population
Urban population
Agricultural population
Population density (people per sq. km.)
Population growth (annual %)
Labor force, total
Labour force in agriculture (%)
Employees female (% of economically active population)
Employees male (% of economically active population)

Land area and land use

Land use

II - FOREST RESOURCES

Total forest cover and changes 1990-1995
Total forest area, status and change 1980-1990-1995: Developing countries
Natural forest area, status and change 1980-1990-1995: Developing countries
Forest plantations, status and change 1980-1990-1995: Developing countries
Area of forest available for wood supply 1995
Volumes of forest available for wood supply 1995

III - TRADE IN NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS

Lac; natural gums, resins etc.
Natural honey
Edible products of animal origin
Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials
Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk, etc.
Mushrooms (fresh or chilled)
Mushrooms and truffles (dried)
Walnuts in shell
Walnuts shelled
Chestnuts
Ginseng roots
Bamboos
Rattans
Essential oils (terpeneless or not)
Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums

IV - OTHER STRUCTURED INFORMATION

Share of forest products in total merchandise trade
Paid employment in manufacturing
Pulp and paper capacity

V - DATA FROM "GREY LITERATURE"

Thematic and multi-country statistics

Table 1 - Guesstimates of Forest Dependent Peoples in Asia-Pacific Countries
Table 2 - Selected basic statistics for Asia-Pacific countries
Table 3 - Estimates of Forest-Dependent Populations
Table 4 - Aspects of agricultural dependency and expansion
Table 5 - Status of Forest Resource in Asia Pacific
Table 6 - Summary of the Main Country Parameters, 1995
Table 7 - Selected forest, cropland and urbanization statistics for Asia-Pacific countries
Table 8 (a) - Bangladesh, Share of Homesteads (NFAs) in Wood Output
Table 8 (b) - Bangladesh, NHAs Available for Intensified Tree Planting
Table 8 (c) - India, Source of Fuelwood and Small Timber
Table 8 (d) - India, Wood Supply from Nurse Trees
Table 9 - Tropical Asia & Pacific - Extent of Notified Natural Forests (e.g. forest reserves), classified by Forest Function
Table 10 - Summary of Protected Areas (IUCN Management Categories I-VI) in the Asia Pacific Region
Table 11 - Estimated Area under Coconut in the South Pacific
Table 12 - Scenarios for Future Natural Forest Resources in the South Pacific (hectares)
Table 13 - Scenarios For Plantation Establishment (hectares)
Table 14 (a) - Tropical Proportion of Total Wood Imports by selected Consumers 1992. (1000 m3)
Table 14 (b) - Tropical Proportion of Total Wood Imports by selected Consumers 1993. (1000 m3)
Table 15 (a) - Major importers of tropical logs
Table 15 (b) - Major importers of tropical sawnwood
Table 15 (c) - Major importers of tropical veneer
Table 15 (d) - Major Importers of Tropical Plywood
Table 16 (a) - End-use for rubberwood in selected countries in 1991 (000 CUM)
Table 16 (b) - Estimated Rubberwood consumption, 1991-1996 (000 Cum)
Table 17 - Japanese imports of wooden furniture by source (Million yen)
Table 18 - Export of Rubberwood Sawntimber to major countries from Malaysia (CUM) (RM Million)
Table 19 - Comparative prices for Rubberwood, logs and sawnwood Nov. 1996 (US$/CUM)
Table 20 - Tariff Changes under the Uruguay Round Settlement
Table 21 - Forest industry structure in ITTO producer countries in 1995
Table 22 (a) - US Forest Products Trade with Asia-Pacific Region, 1984-1995
Table 22 (b) - US Import of Solid Wood Products from Asia-Pacific Region
Table 23 - Quantity and Value of Fuelwood Consumed. Selected Asian Countries, 1991
Table 24 - Trends in Biomass Energy Consumption in Asia. (In Peta Joules = 1015 Joules)
Table 25 - Investments in Protected Areas by Governments
Table 26 - Status of Tourism in Asia Pacific Region
Table 27 - Status of Tourism in Selected Asia Pacific Countries

Country statistics

Bangladesh
Bhutan
Cambodia
The People's Republic of China
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Myanmar
Nepal
New Zealand
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Viet Nam

CLASSIFICATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

Social and Economic

Macro economic data
Population and employment
Land area and land use

Forest Resources
Trade in Non-Wood Forest Products
Other Structured Information
Production and Trade of Wood-Based Forest Products

List of Working Papers already released