Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Nearly half of the ASEAN region is covered with tropical forest, accounting for about 6 percent of the forest area of the world. Three-quarters of the total wood production is used as fuelwood and charcoal. ASEAN is an important timber producing region (particularly of tropical hardwoods), accounting for 6 percent of the world's industrial roundwood production. More than 85 percent of this comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. These two countries are major producers and exporters of wood-based panels (mainly plywood), together accounting for 34 percent (in value) of world export trade in panels. The region is rapidly developing a substantial pulp and paper industry. Many ASEAN countries are major exporters of non-wood forest products, in particular rubber, rattan and bamboo. This region's forests have global significance in terms of biological diversity conservation.
|
Land area (thousand ha) |
416 890 |
Total forest area, 1995 (thousand ha) |
192 799 |
Percent of land in forest (%) |
46.2 |
Forest area per caput (ha) |
0.4 |
Annual change in forest area, 1990-1995 (thousand ha) |
- 2 748 |
Percent annual change, 1990-1995 (%) |
- 1.3 |
|
Product |
Quantity |
% of world total |
Fuelwood and charcoal |
294 542a |
16 |
Industrial roundwood |
97 738a |
6 |
Sawnwood |
17 854a |
4 |
Wood panels |
18 418a |
12 |
Pulp for paper |
3 532b |
2 |
Paper and paperboard |
8 141b |
3 |
|
Product |
Export value |
Import value |
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Export quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
Import quantity |
thousand US$ |
% of world total |
|
Fuelwood and charcoal |
1 822a |
81 403 |
28 |
273a |
5 008 |
2 |
Industrial roundwood |
9 526a |
1 209 375 |
11 |
2 034a |
854 250 |
6 |
Sawnwood |
5 016a |
1 868 729 |
7 |
4 104a |
1 117 133 |
4 |
Wood panels |
14 083a |
5 733 889 |
35 |
1 378a |
423 490 |
3 |
Pulp for paper |
1 289b |
529 847 |
3 |
1 177b |
659 112 |
4 |
Paper and paperboard |
1 683b |
1 360 880 |
2 |
2 801b |
2 754 334 |
4 |
a Thousand m3.
b Thousand tonnes.