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Table 2.5
Ten countries with largest annual net loss of forest area, 1990–2010
country
Annual change
1990–2000
country
Annual change
2000–2010
1 000 ha/yr % 1 000 ha/yr %
brazil -2 890 -0.51 brazil -2 642 -0.49
indonesia -1 914 -1.75 australia -562 -0.37
Sudan -589 -0.80 indonesia -498 -0.51
Myanmar -435 -1.17 Nigeria -410 -3.67
Nigeria -410 -2.68 united republic of Tanzania -403 -1.13
united republic of Tanzania -403 -1.02 Zimbabwe -327 -1.88
Mexico -354 -0.52 Democratic republic of the Congo -311 -0.20
Zimbabwe -327 -1.58 Myanmar -310 -0.93
Democratic republic of the Congo -311 -0.20 bolivia (Plurinational State of) -290 -0.49
argentina -293 -0.88 Venezuela (bolivarian republic of) -288 -0.60
Total -7 926 -0.71 Total -6 040 -0.53
Table 2.6
Ten countries with largest annual net gain in forest area, 1990–2010
country
Annual change
1990–2000
country
Annual change
2000–2010
1 000 ha/yr % 1 000 ha/yr %
China 1 986 1.20 China 2 986 1.57
united States of america 386 0.13 united States of america 383 0.13
Spain 317 2.09 india 304 0.46
Viet Nam 236 2.28 Viet Nam 207 1.64
india 145 0.22 Turkey 119 1.11
France 82 0.55 Spain 119 0.68
italy 78 0.98 Sweden 81 0.29
Chile 57 0.37 italy 78 0.90
Finland 57 0.26 Norway 76 0.79
Philippines 55 0.80 France 60 0.38
Total 3 399 0.55 Total 4 414 0.67
year in the last decade (2000–2010). This finding should be treated with caution, however,
because many countries still do not have compatible information over time for other
wooded land, and thus one estimate was frequently used as the best available figure for
all four reporting years. The data reported for FRA 2010 indicate that the area of other
wooded land is more or less constant in North and Central America, and Oceania.
However, the latter is constrained by a lack of consistent trend data for Australia. In
Europe it decreased in the period 1990–2000, but remained almost constant in the period
2000–2010. The area of other wooded land decreased in both periods in Africa, Asia and
South America.
Data for other land with tree cover were very sparse. Based on the information
provided by the 74 countries that provided data for all four reporting years, the area of
other land with tree cover has been expanding by an average of slightly more than half
a million hectares annually in the last 20 years.
comparison with frA 2005
The global forest area reported for FRA 2010 is larger than that reported for FRA 2005
for all reporting years (see Table 2.7). The difference is approximately 109 million hectares