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Table 10

Summary of forest resources statistics by region for developed countries


Country

Forest and

other wooded land


Forest

Exploitable (production) forest


Above

ground

Net annual increment


Fellings

Annual Fellings/ increment

Total

Percent of

Per caput

Total

Percent of forest & other wooded land

Exploitable (production)

Unexploitable (non production)

Other wooded land

Total

Per hectare

Percent coniferous

(oven dry)

million ha

%

ha/cap

million ha

%

million ha

million ha

million ha

billion m3 o.b.

m3 o.b./ha

%

billion

tons

million m3 o.b.

m3 o.b./ha

million

m3 o.b.

Fellings as % of NAI


Former USSR

942

44

3.26

755

80.1

414

341

187

50

122

74

94

700

1.7

518

74

North America

749

40.8

2.71

456

60.9

308

148

293

38

123

64

52

968

3.2

771

80

Europe

195

35.4

0.35

149

76.4

133

16

46

19

139

64

12

577

4.3

408

71

Australia, Japan & New Zealand

178

21.7

1.24

72

40.4

43

29

106

5

117

47

5

163

3.8

83

51


TOTAL

2 064

38.6

1.62

1 432

69.4

898

534

632

112

125

68

163

2 408

2.6

1 780

74


Sources: FAO, UNECE/FAO

billion = thousand million


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