Change in extent of forest and other wooded land 1990-2005
Country/area Forest Other wooded land
Area Annual change rate Area
1990 2000 2005 1990-2000 2000-2005 1990 2000 2005
1000 ha 1000 ha 1000 ha 1000 ha/yr % 1000 ha/yr % 1000 ha 1000 ha 1000 ha
Angola 60,976 59,728 59,104 -125 -0.2 -125 -0.2 - - -
Botswana 13,718 12,535 11,943 -118 -0.9 -118 -1.0 34,791 34,791 34,791
British Indian Ocean Territory 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Comoros 12 8 5 n.s. -4.0 -1 -7.4 - - -
Kenya 3,708 3,582 3,522 -13 -0.3 -12 -0.3 35,530 35,120 34,920
Lesotho 5 7 8 n.s. 3.4 n.s. 2.7 103 55 31
Madagascar 13,692 13,023 12,838 -67 -0.5 -37 -0.3 21,148 18,453 17,054
Malawi 3,896 3,567 3,402 -33 -0.9 -33 -0.9 - - -
Mauritius 39 38 37 n.s. -0.3 n.s. -0.5 18 17 15
Mayotte 6 6 5 n.s. -0.4 n.s. -0.4 - - -
Mozambique 20,012 19,512 19,262 -50 -0.3 -50 -0.3 42,419 41,419 40,919
Namibia 8,762 8,033 7,661 -73 -0.9 -74 -0.9 9,023 8,656 8,473
Réunion 87 87 84 n.s. -0.1 -1 -0.7 57 54 55
Seychelles 40 40 40 0 0 0 0 - - -
South Africa 9,203 9,203 9,203 0 0 0 0 21,409 21,409 21,409
Swaziland 472 518 541 5 0.9 5 0.9 152 276 289
Uganda 4,924 4,059 3,627 -86 -1.9 -86 -2.2 1,404 1,235 1,150
United Republic of Tanzania 41,441 37,318 35,257 -412 -1.0 -412 -1.1 22,374 10,629 4,756
Zambia 49,124 44,676 42,452 -445 -0.9 -445 -1.0 4,081 3,468 3,161
Zimbabwe 22,234 19,105 17,540 -313 -1.5 -313 -1.7 5,437 - -
Eastern and Southern Africa 252,354 235,047 226,534 -1,731 -0.71 -1,702 -0.74
Algeria 1,790 2,144 2,277 35 1.8 27 1.2 1,840 1,662 1,595
Burkina Faso 7,154 6,914 6,794 -24 -0.3 -24 -0.3 7,427 7,427 7,427
Chad 13,110 12,317 11,921 -79 -0.6 -79 -0.7 10,070 9,458 9,152
Djibouti 6 6 6 0 0 0 0 220 220 220
Egypt 44 59 67 2 3.0 2 2.6 20 20 20
Eritrea 1,621 1,576 1,554 -4 -0.3 -4 -0.3 7,569 7,361 7,257
Ethiopia 15,114 13,705 13,000 -141 -1.0 -141 -1.1 44,650 44,650 44,650
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 217 217 217 0 0 0 0 330 330 330
Mali 14,072 13,072 12,572 -100 -0.7 -100 -0.8 16,532 16,532 16,532
Mauritania 415 317 267 -10 -2.7 -10 -3.4 3,110 3,110 3,110
Morocco 4,289 4,328 4,364 4 0.1 7 0.2 407 407 406
Niger 1,945 1,328 1,266 -62 -3.7 -12 -1.0 4,640 4,040 3,740
Somalia 8,282 7,515 7,131 -77 -1.0 -77 -1.0 - - -
Sudan 76,381 70,491 67,546 -589 -0.8 -589 -0.8 - 54,153 -
Tunisia 643 959 1,056 32 4.1 19 1.9 328 177 170
Western Sahara 1,011 1,011 1,011 0 0 0 0 - - -
Northern Africa 146,093 135,958 131,048 -1,013 -0.72 -982 -0.73
Benin 3,322 2,675 2,351 -65 -2.1 -65 -2.5 3,590 3,836 3,959
Burundi 289 198 152 -9 -3.7 -9 -5.2 722 722 722
Cameroon 24,545 22,345 21,245 -220 -0.9 -220 -1.0 14,758 14,758 14,758
Cape Verde 58 82 84 2 3.6 n.s. 0.4 - - -
Central African Republic 23,203 22,903 22,755 -30 -0.1 -30 -0.1 10,122 10,122 10,122
Congo 22,726 22,556 22,471 -17 -0.1 -17 -0.1 10,649 10,581 10,547
Côte d'Ivoire 10,222 10,328 10,405 11 0.1 15 0.1 2,675 2,662 2,626
Democratic Republic of the Congo 140,531 135,207 133,610 -532 -0.4 -319 -0.2 83,277 83,277 83,277
Equatorial Guinea 1,860 1,708 1,632 -15 -0.8 -15 -0.9 5 22 31
Gabon 21,927 21,826 21,775 -10 n.s. -10 n.s. - - -
Gambia 442 461 471 2 0.4 2 0.4 170 140 125
Ghana 7,448 6,094 5,517 -135 -2.0 -115 -2.0 0 0 0
Guinea 7,408 6,904 6,724 -50 -0.7 -36 -0.5 5,850 5,850 5,850
Guinea-Bissau 2,216 2,120 2,072 -10 -0.4 -10 -0.5 293 241 236
Liberia 4,058 3,455 3,154 -60 -1.6 -60 -1.8 0 0 0
Nigeria 17,234 13,137 11,089 -410 -2.7 -410 -3.3 9,717 6,902 5,495
Rwanda 318 344 480 3 0.8 27 6.9 175 61 61
Saint Helena 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sao Tome and Principe 27 27 27 0 0 0 0 29 29 29
Senegal 9,348 8,898 8,673 -45 -0.5 -45 -0.5 5,301 5,101 5,001
Sierra Leone 3,044 2,851 2,754 -19 -0.7 -19 -0.7 765 511 384
Togo 685 486 386 -20 -3.4 -20 -4.5 1,246 1,246 1,246
Western and Central Africa 300,914 284,608 277,829 -1,631 -0.56 -1,356 -0.48
Africa 699,361 655,613 635,412 -4,375 -0.64 -4,040 -0.62
China 157,141 177,001 197,290 1,986 1.2 4,058 2.2 101,498 97,683 87,615
Democratic People's Republic of Korea 8,201 6,821 6,187 -138 -1.8 -127 -1.9 - - -
Japan 24,950 24,876 24,868 -7 n.s. -2 n.s. - - -
Mongolia 11,492 10,665 10,252 -83 -0.7 -83 -0.8 6,264 3,034 2,388
Republic of Korea 6,371 6,300 6,265 -7 -0.1 -7 -0.1 - - -
East Asia 208,155 225,663 244,862 1,751 0.81 3,840 1.65
Bangladesh 882 884 871 n.s. n.s. -2 -0.3 44 53 58
Bhutan 3,035 3,141 3,195 11 0.3 11 0.3 566 609 611
Brunei Darussalam 313 288 278 -2 -0.8 -2 -0.7 142 155 160
Cambodia 12,946 11,541 10,447 -140 -1.1 -219 -2.0 335 298 270
India 63,939 67,554 67,701 362 0.6 29 n.s. 5,894 4,732 4,110
Indonesia 116,567 97,852 88,495 -1,872 -1.7 -1,871 -2.0 - - -
Lao People's Democratic Republic 17,314 16,532 16,142 -78 -0.5 -78 -0.5 2,875 4,053 4,643
Malaysia 22,376 21,591 20,890 -78 -0.4 -140 -0.7 - - -
Maldives 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myanmar 39,219 34,554 32,222 -466 -1.3 -466 -1.4 10,219 10,629 10,834
Nepal 4,817 3,900 3,636 -92 -2.1 -53 -1.4 1,180 1,753 1,897
Pakistan 2,527 2,116 1,902 -41 -1.8 -43 -2.1 1,191 1,323 1,389
Philippines 10,574 7,949 7,162 -262 -2.8 -157 -2.1 2,230 3,292 3,611
Singapore 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sri Lanka 2,350 2,082 1,933 -27 -1.2 -30 -1.5 0 0 0
Thailand 15,965 14,814 14,520 -115 -0.7 -59 -0.4 - - -
Timor-Leste 966 854 798 -11 -1.2 -11 -1.3 - - -
Viet Nam 9,363 11,725 12,931 236 2.3 241 2.0 0 1,816 2,259
South and South-east Asia 323,156 297,380 283,127 -2,578 -0.83 -2,851 -0.98
Afghanistan 1,309 1,015 867 -29 -2.5 -30 -3.1 - - -
Armenia 346 305 283 -4 -1.3 -4 -1.5 45 45 45
Azerbaijan 936 936 936 0 0 0 0 54 54 54
Bahrain n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. 5.6 n.s. 3.8 0 0 0
Cyprus 161 173 174 1 0.7 n.s. 0.2 - 214 214
Georgia 2,760 2,760 2,760 n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. 53 51 50
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 11,075 11,075 11,075 0 0 0 0 5,340 5,340 5,340
Iraq 804 818 822 1 0.2 1 0.1 1,245 1,033 927
Israel 154 164 171 1 0.6 1 0.8 16 62 85
Jordan 83 83 83 0 0 0 0 55 54 52
Kazakhstan 3,422 3,365 3,337 -6 -0.2 -6 -0.2 13,049 14,765 15,622
Kuwait 3 5 6 n.s. 3.5 n.s. 2.7 0 0 0
Kyrgyzstan 836 858 869 2 0.3 2 0.3 283 303 313
Lebanon 121 131 136 1 0.8 1 0.8 - 117 106
Occupied Palestinian Territory 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 - - -
Oman 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 1,303 1,303 1,303
Qatar n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 n.s. n.s. n.s.
Saudi Arabia 2,728 2,728 2,728 0 0 0 0 34,155 34,155 34,155
Syrian Arab Republic 372 432 461 6 1.5 6 1.3 35 35 35
Tajikistan 408 410 410 n.s. n.s. 0 0 142 142 142
Turkey 9,680 10,052 10,175 37 0.4 25 0.2 10,905 10,728 10,689
Turkmenistan 4,127 4,127 4,127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
United Arab Emirates 245 310 312 6 2.4 n.s. 0.1 4 4 4
Uzbekistan 3,045 3,212 3,295 17 0.5 17 0.5 - - 904
Yemen 549 549 549 0 0 0 0 1,406 1,406 1,406
Western and Central Asia 43,176 43,519 43,588 34 0.08 14 0.03
Asia 574,487 566,562 571,577 -792 -0.14 1,003 0.18
Albania 789 769 794 -2 -0.3 5 0.6 256 255 261
Andorra 16 16 16 0 0 0 0 - - -
Austria 3,776 3,838 3,862 6 0.2 5 0.1 118 117 118
Belarus 7,376 7,848 7,894 47 0.6 9 0.1 895 915 914
Belgium 677 667 667 -1 -0.1 0 0 21 27 27
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,210 2,185 2,185 -2 -0.1 0 0 500 549 549
Bulgaria 3,327 3,375 3,625 5 0.1 50 1.4 130 105 27
Channel Islands 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Croatia 2,116 2,129 2,135 1 0.1 1 0.1 322 338 346
Czech Republic 2,630 2,637 2,648 1 n.s. 2 0.1 0 0 0
Denmark 445 486 500 4 0.9 3 0.6 136 136 136
Estonia 2,163 2,243 2,284 8 0.4 8 0.4 - 94 82
Faeroe Islands n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 - - -
Finland 22,194 22,475 22,500 28 0.1 5 n.s. 923 830 802
France 14,538 15,351 15,554 81 0.5 41 0.3 2,087 1,814 1,708
Germany 10,741 11,076 11,076 34 0.3 0 0 - - -
Gibraltar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greece 3,299 3,601 3,752 30 0.9 30 0.8 3,212 2,924 2,780
Holy See 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hungary 1,801 1,907 1,976 11 0.6 14 0.7 0 0 0
Iceland 25 38 46 1 4.3 2 3.9 104 104 104
Ireland 441 609 669 17 3.3 12 1.9 40 41 41
Isle of Man 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy 8,383 9,447 9,979 106 1.2 106 1.1 880 992 1,047
Latvia 2,775 2,885 2,941 11 0.4 11 0.4 112 120 115
Liechtenstein 6 7 7 n.s. 0.6 0 0 0 0 0
Lithuania 1,945 2,020 2,099 8 0.4 16 0.8 80 83 77
Luxembourg 86 87 87 n.s. 0.1 0 0 3 1 1
Malta n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Monaco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Netherlands 345 360 365 2 0.4 1 0.3 0 0 0
Norway 9,130 9,301 9,387 17 0.2 17 0.2 2,870 2,699 2,613
Poland 8,881 9,059 9,192 18 0.2 27 0.3 - - -
Portugal 3,099 3,583 3,783 48 1.5 40 1.1 236 84 84
Republic of Moldova 319 326 329 1 0.2 1 0.2 31 31 31
Romania 6,371 6,366 6,370 -0 n.s. 1 n.s. 314 234 258
Russian Federation 808,950 809,268 808,790 32 n.s. -96 n.s. 75,144 72,706 74,185
San Marino n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Serbia 2,559 2,649 2,694 9 0.3 9 0.3 820 812 808
Slovakia 1,922 1,921 1,929 n.s. n.s. 2 0.1 - - -
Slovenia 1,188 1,239 1,264 5 0.4 5 0.4 44 44 44
Spain 13,479 16,436 17,915 296 2.0 296 1.7 12,447 11,016 10,299
Sweden 27,367 27,474 27,528 11 n.s. 11 n.s. 3,223 3,246 3,257
Switzerland 1,155 1,199 1,221 4 0.4 4 0.4 59 64 67
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 906 906 906 0 0 0 0 82 82 82
Ukraine 9,274 9,510 9,575 24 0.3 13 0.1 29 41 41
United Kingdom 2,611 2,793 2,845 18 0.7 10 0.4 20 20 20
Europe 989,320 998,091 1,001,394 877 0.09 661 0.07
Anguilla 6 6 6 0 0 0 0 - - -
Antigua and Barbuda 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 16 16 16
Aruba n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bahamas 515 515 515 0 0 0 0 36 36 36
Barbados 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 - - -
Bermuda 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
British Virgin Islands 4 4 4 n.s. -0.1 n.s. -0.1 2 2 2
Cayman Islands 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 4 4 4
Cuba 2,058 2,435 2,713 38 1.7 56 2.2 254 264 260
Dominica 50 47 46 n.s. -0.5 n.s. -0.6 n.s. n.s. n.s.
Dominican Republic 1,376 1,376 1,376 0 0 0 0 678 678 678
Grenada 4 4 4 n.s. n.s. 0 0 4 5 5
Guadeloupe 84 81 80 n.s. -0.3 n.s. -0.3 2 2 2
Haiti 116 109 105 -1 -0.6 -1 -0.7 - - -
Jamaica 345 341 339 n.s. -0.1 n.s. -0.1 190 189 188
Martinique 46 46 46 0 0 0 0 - - -
Montserrat 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 - - -
Netherlands Antilles 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 33 33 33
Puerto Rico 404 407 408 n.s. 0.1 n.s. n.s. - - -
Saint Kitts and Nevis 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 6 6 6
Saint Lucia 17 17 17 0 0 0 0 5 5 5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 9 10 11 n.s. 0.8 n.s. 0.8 3 2 2
Trinidad and Tobago 235 228 226 -1 -0.3 n.s. -0.2 65 72 74
Turks and Caicos Islands 34 34 34 0 0 0 0 - - -
United States Virgin Islands 12 10 10 n.s. -1.3 n.s. -1.8 - - -
Caribbean 5,350 5,706 5,974 36 0.65 54 0.92
Belize 1,653 1,653 1,653 0 0 0 0 115 115 115
Costa Rica 2,564 2,376 2,391 -19 -0.8 3 0.1 15 10 10
El Salvador 375 324 298 -5 -1.5 -5 -1.7 201 201 201
Guatemala 4,748 4,208 3,938 -54 -1.2 -54 -1.3 1,672 1,672 1,672
Honduras 7,385 5,430 4,648 -196 -3.0 -156 -3.1 271 559 710
Nicaragua 6,538 5,539 5,189 -100 -1.6 -70 -1.3 876 973 1,022
Panama 4,376 4,307 4,294 -7 -0.2 -3 -0.1 851 1,143 1,288
Central America 27,639 23,837 22,411 -380 -1.47 -285 -1.23
Canada 310,134 310,134 310,134 0 0 0 0 91,951 91,951 91,951
Greenland n.s. n.s. n.s. 0 0 0 0 8 8 8
Mexico 69,016 65,540 64,238 -348 -0.5 -260 -0.4 20,705 20,174 19,908
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 - - -
United States of America 298,648 302,294 303,089 365 0.1 159 0.1 - - -
North America 677,801 677,971 677,464 17 n.s. -101 -0.01
North and Central America 710,790 707,514 705,849 -328 -0.05 -333 -0.05
American Samoa 18 18 18 n.s. -0.2 n.s. -0.2 - - -
Australia 167,904 164,645 163,678 -326 -0.2 -193 -0.1 - 421,590 421,590
Cook Islands 15 16 16 n.s. 0.4 0 0 - - -
Fiji 979 1,000 1,000 2 0.2 0 0 - - -
French Polynesia 105 105 105 0 0 0 0 - - -
Guam 26 26 26 n.s. n.s. 0 0 - 0 0
Kiribati 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 - - -
Marshall Islands - - - - 0 - 0 - - -
Micronesia (Federated States of) 63 63 63 0 0 0 0 - - -
Nauru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Caledonia 717 717 717 0 0 0 0 787 787 787
New Zealand 7,720 8,226 8,309 51 0.6 17 0.2 2,557 2,557 2,557
Niue 17 15 14 n.s. -1.3 n.s. -1.4 - - -
Northern Mariana Islands 35 34 33 n.s. -0.3 n.s. -0.3 - - -
Palau 38 40 40 n.s. 0.4 n.s. 0.4 - - -
Papua New Guinea 31,523 30,132 29,437 -139 -0.5 -139 -0.5 4,474 4,474 4,474
Pitcairn 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Samoa 130 171 171 4 2.8 0 0 - 22 22
Solomon Islands 2,768 2,371 2,172 -40 -1.5 -40 -1.7 - - -
Tokelau 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tonga 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Tuvalu 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vanuatu 440 440 440 0 0 0 0 476 476 476
Wallis and Futuna Islands 6 5 5 n.s. -0.8 n.s. -2.0 2 1 1
Oceania 212,514 208,034 206,254 -448 -0.21 -356 -0.17
Argentina 35,262 33,770 33,021 -149 -0.4 -150 -0.4 60,280 60,734 60,961
Bolivia (plurinational state of) 62,795 60,091 58,740 -270 -0.4 -270 -0.5 2,473 2,473 2,473
Brazil 520,027 493,213 477,698 -2,681 -0.5 -3,103 -0.6 - - -
Chile 15,263 15,834 16,121 57 0.4 57 0.4 16,065 13,806 13,241
Colombia 61,439 60,963 60,728 -48 -0.1 -47 -0.1 18,219 18,158 18,202
Ecuador 13,817 11,841 10,853 -198 -1.5 -198 -1.7 1,201 1,360 1,448
Falkland Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
French Guiana 8,091 8,063 8,063 -3 n.s. 0 0 0 0 0
Guyana 15,104 15,104 15,104 n.s. n.s. 0 0 - 3,580 3,580
Paraguay 21,157 19,368 18,475 -179 -0.9 -179 -0.9 - - -
Peru 70,156 69,213 68,742 -94 -0.1 -94 -0.1 - 22,132 22,132
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Suriname 14,776 14,776 14,776 0 0 0 0 - - -
Uruguay 905 1,409 1,506 50 4.5 19 1.3 4 4 4
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 52,026 49,151 47,713 -288 -0.6 -288 -0.6 7,526 7,421 7,369
South America 890,818 852,796 831,540 -3,802 -0.44 -4,251 -0.50
World 4,077,291 3,988,610 3,952,025 -8,868 -0.22 -7,317 -0.18
Data source: FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005.

Note:
The figure for Australia on the extent of other wooded land for year 2005 is a FAO estimate, based on the assumption that the area of other wooded land has been constant since 2000.
The 1990 figures on the extent of Forest for Lebanon, Palestine Occupied Territories, Guam and Guyana are FAO estimates based on information provided by these countries for 2000 and 2005.
last updated:  Thursday, November 10, 2005