|
Country |
Total Forest 1990 |
Total Forest 1995 |
Total Change 1990-95 |
Annual Change |
Annual Change rate (%) |
|
Burkina Faso |
4 431 |
4 271 |
-160 |
-32 |
-0.7 |
|
Cape Verde |
16 |
47 |
31 |
6 |
24.0 |
|
Chad |
11 496 |
11 025 |
-471 |
-94 |
-0.8 |
|
Gambia |
95 |
91 |
-4 |
-1 |
-0.9 |
|
Guinea-Bissau |
2 361 |
2 309 |
-52 |
-10 |
-0.4 |
|
Mali |
12 154 |
11 585 |
-569 |
-114 |
-1.0 |
|
Mauritania |
556 |
556 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
|
Niger |
2 562 |
2 562 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
|
Senegal |
7 629 |
7 381 |
-248 |
-50 |
-0.7 |
|
Total West Sahelian Africa |
41 300 |
39 827 |
-1 473 |
-295 |
-0.7 |
|
Djibouti |
22 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
|
Eritrea |
282 |
282 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
|
Ethiopia |
13 891 |
13 579 |
-312 |
-62 |
-0.5 |
|
Kenya |
1 309 |
1 292 |
-17 |
-3 |
-0.3 |
|
Somalia |
760 |
754 |
-6 |
-1 |
-0.2 |
|
Sudan |
43 376 |
41 613 |
-1 763 |
-353 |
-0.8 |
|
Total East Sahelian Africa |
59 640 |
57 542 |
-2 098 |
-420 |
-0.7 |
|
Benin |
4 923 |
4 625 |
-298 |
-60 |
-1.2 |
|
Cameroon |
20 244 |
19 598 |
-646 |
-129 |
-0.6 |
|
Côte d’Ivoire |
5 623 |
5 469 |
-154 |
-31 |
-0.6 |
|
Ghana |
9 608 |
9 022 |
-586 |
-117 |
-1.3 |
|
Guinea |
6 741 |
6 367 |
-374 |
-75 |
-1.1 |
|
Nigeria |
14 387 |
13 780 |
-607 |
-121 |
-0.9 |
|
Togo |
1 338 |
1 245 |
-93 |
-19 |
-1.4 |
|
Total Gulf of Guinea States |
62 864 |
60 106 |
-2 758 |
-552 |
-0.9 |
Notes: numbers may not tally due to rounding; the sub-regional breakdown reflects ecogeographic zones, not economic or political groupings.FAO definitions of forest apply here
Source: State of the World’s Forests, FAO, 1999
