FAO Forestry statistics

FAO Forestry work with statistics in the following areas:

  • Global compilations of comparable statistics 
    • annual report on production, trade and consumption of forest products and  import / export of forest products (ForesStat-FAOSTAT) and;
    • every fifth year report on forest resource statistics (Forest Resources Assessment);
  • Country support for collection of forest resource statistics aimed at improving the country capacity for planning and policy development (National Forest Monitoring and Assessments).