Share of land covered by forest, 2020
Forest area includes land with natural or planted groups of trees at least five meters tall, excluding those in agricultural systems.
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- Deforestation and Forest Loss
- Forest area
- Humans destroyed forests for thousands of years — we can become the first generation that achieves a world in which forests expand
- Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Charts
- Above-ground forest biomass
- Annual CO₂ emissions from deforestation by product
- Annual CO₂ emissions from deforestation for food production
- Annual afforestation
- Annual change in forest areain %
- Annual change in forest areain hectares
- Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area
- Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita
- Annual deforestation
- Annual deforestation as a share of forest area
- Annual deforestation by region (2010–2014)
- Annual forest expansion
- Annual tropical deforestation by agricultural product
- Change in domestic forest area vs. deforestation embedded in imported goods
- Change in total mangrove area
- Commodity-driven deforestation
- Drivers of deforestation in Indonesia
- Drivers of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon
- Exported deforestation
- Forest area
- Forest area by type: naturally regenerating vs. planted
- Forest certified for sustainable use
- Forest transition phase
- Global forest area
- Imported deforestation
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from deforestation for food production
- Share of CO₂ emissions from tropical deforestation and peatlands
- Share of annual global forest expansion
- Share of deforestation that is driven by domestic consumption
- Share of deforestation that is exported
- Share of forest area within protected areas
- Share of forest with a long-term management plan
- Share of global annual deforestation
- Share of global forest area
- Share of land that is degraded
- Share of tropical deforestation
- Share of tropical deforestation from agricultural products
- Tree cover loss
- Tree cover loss by dominant driver
- Tree cover loss from wildfires
- Who is contributing to deforestation abroad?
- Woodland area by type