- Which countries have the highest forest cover?
- Which countries are the major consumers and producers of forest products?
- How many people depend on drugs derived from forest plants?
- How much deforestation contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions?
- How many countries have less than 10 percent forest cover?
- The annual deforestation rate in the world?
- How many people are employed in the formal forestry sector worldwide?
- The total number of mountain people worldwide?
- What percentage does bioenergy account for energy consumed worldwide?
- Forests cover 31% of total land area
- The world's total forest area is just over 4 billion hectares, which corresponds to an average of 0.6 ha per capita.
- The five most forest-rich countries (the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China) account for more than half of the total forest area.
- Ten countries or areas have no forest at all and an additional 54 have forest on less than 10 percent of their total land area.
People and forests
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- Forests are home to 300 million people around the world.
- More than 1.6 billion people depend to varying degrees on forests for their livelihoods, e.g. fuelwood, medicinal plants and forest foods.
- About 60 million indigenous people are almost wholly dependent on forests.
- Some 350 million people who live within or adjacent to dense forests depend on them to a high degree for subsistence and income.
- In developing countries, about 1.2 billion people rely on agroforestry farming systems that help to sustain agricultural productivity and generate income.
- Mangrove forests, which cover about 15 million hectares worldwide, are essential to the life cycles of the majority of the world's commercial fish species.
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Forests cover 31% of total land area
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