Forestry

FAO Forestry statistics

FAO Forestry Department works with statistics in the following areas:

• Global compilations of comparable statistics 
  • annual data on production, import / export and consumption of forest products (FAOSTAT-Forestry and FAO Yearbook of Forest Products);
  • pulp and paper production capacities and recovered paper data surveys; and
  • every fifth year report on forest resource statistics (Forest Resources Assessment);
• Country support
  • CountrySTAT - a web-based information technology system for food and agriculture statistics at the national and subnational levels:
  • collection of forest resource statistics aimed at improving the country capacity for planning and policy development (National Forest Monitoring and Assessment).