TABLE 41: Land and forestry Forest area total
World Africa Eastern Africa Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mayotte Mozambique Réunion Rwanda Seychelles Somalia Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe Middle Africa Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon Sao Tome and Principe Northern Africa Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco South Sudan Sudan Sudan (former) Tunisia Western Sahara Southern Africa Botswana Lesotho Namibia South Africa Swaziland Western Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d’Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Senegal Sierra Leone Togo
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% total land %
%
primary forest
thousand ha 1990
thousand ha 2010
%
%
1990
2010
1990
2010
4 163 701 749 238 211 710 289 12 6
31.9 25.3 35.0 11.3 6.4 0.2
3 708 13 692 3 896 39 18 43 378 87 318 41 8 282 4 751 41 495 52 800 22 164 328 581 60 976 24 316 23 203 13 110 22 726 160 363 1 860 22 000 27 84 708 1 667 44 217 5 049
4 033 049 674 408 181 145 172 3 6 1 532 12 296 3 467 12 553 3 237 35 3 39 022 88 435 41 6 747 2 988 33 428 49 468 15 624 312 725 58 480 19 916 22 605 11 525 22 411 154 135 1 626 22 000 27 78 572 1 492 70 217 5 131
6.5 23.5 41.3 19.1 47.2 55.2 34.8 12.9 88.5 13.2 23.8 46.8 71.0 57.3 50.6 48.9 51.4 37.2 10.4 66.5 70.7 66.3 85.4 28.1 10.1 0.7 0.0 0.1 11.3
31.0 22.7 29.9 6.7 1.6 0.2 15.2 12.3 6.1 21.6 34.3 17.2 9.1 49.6 35.2 17.6 88.5 10.8 15.0 37.7 66.5 40.4 48.1 46.9 42.1 36.3 9.2 65.6 68.0 58.0 85.4 28.1 9.4 0.6 0.1 0.1 11.5
37.7 10.8 3.2 38.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.7 24.6 44.3 0.0 4.3 0.0 63.2 2.2 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.6 22.7 0.0
35.7 9.6 3.1 23.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.9 24.2 28.9 0.0 5.5 0.0 62.5 1.6 4.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.1 17.5 0.0
16.8 1.6 33.2
10.5 1.6 33.2
0.0 95.2 40.7 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
76 381 643
69 949 1 006
32.1 4.1
29.4 6.5
32 233 13 718 40 8 762 9 241 472 92 006 5 761 6 847 58 10 222 442 7 448 7 264 2 216 4 929 14 072 415 1 945 17 234 2
28 489 11 351 44 7 290 9 241 563 73 478 4 561 5 649 85 10 403 480 4 940 6 544 2 022 4 329 12 490 242 1 204 9 041 2
12.2 24.2 1.3 10.6 7.6 27.4 15.2 51.1 25.0 14.3 32.1 43.7 32.7 29.6 78.8 51.2 11.5 0.4 1.5 18.9 5.1
9 348 3 118 685
8 473 2 726 287
48.6 43.5 12.6
Forest characteristics other naturally regenerated forest %
planted forest
%
%
%
1990
2010
1990
2010
57.6 87.2 95.9 61.9 83.3 100.0 99.4 96.8 74.9 73.7 52.3 61.3 94.2 99.9 31.0 19.8 83.3 100.0 99.3 99.6 99.9 95.7 77.2 99.8
57.3 87.4 95.6 36.6 66.7 100.0 97.8 95.8 75.5 72.5 59.9 57.7 87.3 99.8 31.8 12.6 83.3 100.0 98.3 99.3 99.9 94.2 82.3 99.8
4.8 2.1 0.9 0.0 16.7 0.0 0.6 3.2 6.4 1.7 3.4 38.7 1.5 0.1 5.7 78.0 11.8 0.0 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.2
6.9 3.1 1.4 40.1 33.3 0.0 2.2 4.2 5.7 3.3 11.3 42.3 7.2 0.2 5.7 85.7 11.8 0.0 1.7 0.7 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.2
83.2 98.3 66.6
89.5 98.3 66.5
0.0 0.1 0.2
0.0 0.1 0.3
0.0 65.2 40.7 17.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
100.0 4.7 59.3 74.0 80.0 0.0 0.0 90.5
100.0 34.7 59.3 71.9 72.9 0.0 0.0 87.9
0.0 0.1 0.0 8.0 20.0 100.0 100.0 9.5
0.0 0.1 0.0 10.3 27.1 100.0 100.0 12.1
20.0 0.0
20.0 0.0
72.9 54.4
71.3 31.4
7.1 45.6
8.7 68.6
10.7 20.0 1.4 8.9 7.6 32.7 12.1 40.4 20.6 21.0 32.7 47.4 21.7 26.6 71.9 44.9 10.2 0.2 1.0 9.9 5.1
2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.2 0.0 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.1 0.3 5.3 0.9
91.5 100.0 85.0 100.0 72.2 66.1 93.4 99.8 99.9 0.0 92.4 99.4 94.0 98.3 96.3 100.0 98.8 86.2 89.5
90.0 100.0 76.4 100.0 70.7 75.1 92.3 99.6 98.1 0.0 90.8 99.5 86.7 97.6 100.0 95.8 95.8 91.3 69.4 95.8
5.6 0.0 15.0 0.0 17.6 33.9 1.0 0.2 0.1 100.0 1.5 0.3 0.7 0.8
3.6 0.0 0.0 11.3 9.0
3.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.2 0.0 4.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 0.2 8.0 1.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 18.3 0.0
0.2 0.0 1.2 2.5 1.5
6.7 0.0 23.6 0.0 19.1 24.9 3.4 0.4 1.9 100.0 3.2 0.3 5.3 1.4 0.0 0.2 4.2 8.7 12.3 4.2
44.0 38.1 5.3
18.8 7.2 0.0
18.3 4.1 0.0
79.0 92.6 96.5
76.2 95.3 85.4
2.2 0.2 3.5
5.5 0.5 14.6