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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020
May 18 , 2020
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- It has been released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
- It has examined the status of forests in more than 236 countries and territories between the period 1990 and 2020.
- The world lost 178 million hectare of forest since 1990, an area the size of Libya.
- Africa had the largest annual rate of net forest loss in 2010–2020 followed by South America.
- On the other hand, Asia had the highest net gain of forest area in 2010–2020, followed by Oceania and Europe.
- The world’s total forest area was 4.06 billion hectares (bha), which was 31 per cent of the total land area.
- The largest proportion of the world’s forests were tropical (45 per cent), followed by boreal, temperate and subtropical.
- More than 54 per cent of the world’s forests were in only five countries — the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China.
- The highest per cent of plantation forests were in South America while the lowest were in Europe.
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