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| Table 3
Land area, forest changes and forest per caput by region |
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| Region |
Land area |
Forest & Other Wooded Land
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Forest
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Status |
Annual Change 198090 1
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Total |
% of land |
Per Caput |
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million ha |
million ha |
1 000 ha |
% |
million ha |
% |
ha |
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| Europe |
550 |
195 |
191 |
0.13 |
149 |
27 |
0.3 |
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| Former USSR |
2 139 |
942 |
51 |
0.01 |
755 |
35 |
2.2 |
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| North America |
1 835 |
749 |
-317 |
-0.11 |
457 |
25 |
1.7 |
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| Developed Asia & Oceania |
818 |
178 |
-4 |
0.00 |
71 |
9 |
0.5 |
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| Developed regions |
5 342 |
2 064 |
-79 |
-0.01 |
1 432 |
27 |
1.1 |
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| Africa |
2 964 |
1 137 |
-2 828 |
-0.26 |
545 |
18 |
0.8 |
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| Asia & Pacific |
2 613 |
660 |
-999 |
-0.60 |
497 |
19 |
0.2 |
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| Latin America & Caribbean |
2 016 |
1 260 |
-6 047 |
-0.50 |
967 |
48 |
2.2 |
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| Developing regions |
7 594 |
3 057 |
-9 874 |
-0.43 |
2 010 |
26 |
0.5 |
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| ALL REGIONS |
12 936 |
5 120 |
-9 953 |
-0.20 |
3 442 |
27 |
0.6 |
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1 Estimates of area change are not available for the main part of the former USSR. Estimates, for the former USSR in regional and world totals include only Belarus and Ukraine
