Global deforestation rates, sorted by country

Country / Region	Forest cover 1990	Forest cover 2000	Forest cover 2005	Change in forest cover 1990-2000	Change in forest cover 2000-2005
	1000 ha	1000 ha	1000 ha	1000 ha/yr	1000 ha/yr
Afghanistan	1,309	1,015	867	-29	-30
Albania	789	769	794	-2	5
Algeria	1,790	2,144	2,277	35	27
American Samoa	18	18	18	n.s.	n.s.
Andorra	16	16	16	0	0
Angola	60,976	59,728	59,104	-125	-125
Anguilla	6	6	6	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	9	9	9	0	0
Argentina	35,262	33,770	33,021	-149	-150
Armenia	336	344	321	1	-5
Aruba	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Australia	167,904	164,645	163,678	-326	-193
Austria	3,776	3,838	3,862	6	5
Azerbaijan	936	936	936	0	0
Bahamas	515	515	515	0	0
Bahrain	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.
Bangladesh	882	884	871	n.s.	-2
Barbados	2	2	2	0	0
Belarus	7,376	7,848	7,894	47	9
Belgium	677	667	667	-1	0
Belize	1,653	1,653	1,653	0	0
Benin	3,322	2,675	2,351	-65	-65
Bermuda	1	1	1	0	0
Bhutan	3,035	3,141	3,195	11	11
Bolivia	62,795	60,091	58,740	-270	-270
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,210	2,185	2,185	-2	0
Botswana	13,718	12,535	11,943	-118	-118
Brazil	520,027	493,213	477,698	-2,681	-3,103
British Indian Ocean Territory	3	3	3	0	0
British Virgin Islands	4	4	4	n.s.	n.s.
Brunei Darussalam	313	288	278	-2	-2
Bulgaria	3,327	3,375	3,625	5	50
Burkina Faso	7,154	6,914	6,794	-24	-24
Burundi	289	198	152	-9	-9
Cambodia	12,946	11,541	10,447	-140	-219
Cameroon	24,545	22,345	21,245	-220	-220
Canada	310,134	310,134	310,134	0	0
Cape Verde	58	82	84	2	n.s.
Cayman Islands	12	12	12	0	0
Central African Republic	23,203	22,903	22,755	-30	-30
Chad	13,110	12,317	11,921	-79	-79
Channel Islands	1	1	1	0	0
Chile	15,263	15,834	16,121	57	57
China	157,141	177,001	197,290	1,986	4,058
Colombia	61,439	60,963	60,728	-48	-47
Comoros	12	8	5	n.s.	-1
Congo	22,726	22,556	22,471	-17	-17
Cook Islands	15	16	16	n.s.	0
Costa Rica	2,564	2,376	2,391	-19	3
Côte d'Ivoire	10,222	10,328	10,405	11	15
Croatia	2,116	2,129	2,135	1	1
Cuba	2,058	2,435	2,713	38	56
Cyprus	161	173	174	1	n.s.
Czech Republic	2,630	2,637	2,648	1	2
Democratic Republic of the Congo	140,531	135,207	133,610	-532	-319
Denmark	445	486	500	4	3
Djibouti	6	6	6	0	0
Dominica	50	47	46	n.s.	n.s.
Dominican Republic	1,376	1,376	1,376	0	0
Ecuador	13,817	11,841	10,853	-198	-198
Egypt	44	59	67	2	2
El Salvador	375	324	298	-5	-5
Equatorial Guinea	1,860	1,708	1,632	-15	-15
Eritrea	1,621	1,576	1,554	-4	-4
Estonia	2,163	2,243	2,284	8	8
Ethiopia	15,114	13,705	13,000	-141	-141
Faeroe Islands	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Falkland Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji	979	1,000	1,000	2	0
Finland	22,194	22,475	22,500	28	5
France	14,538	15,351	15,554	81	41
French Guiana	8,091	8,063	8,063	-3	0
French Polynesia	105	105	105	0	0
Gabon	21,927	21,826	21,775	-10	-10
Gambia	442	461	471	2	2
Georgia	2,760	2,760	2,760	n.s.	n.s.
Germany	10,741	11,076	11,076	34	0
Ghana	7,448	6,094	5,517	-135	-115
Gibraltar	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	3,299	3,601	3,752	30	30
Greenland	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Grenada	4	4	4	n.s.	0
Guadeloupe	84	81	80	n.s.	n.s.
Guam	26	26	26	n.s.	0
Guatemala	4,748	4,208	3,938	-54	-54
Guinea	7,408	6,904	6,724	-50	-36
Guinea-Bissau	2,216	2,120	2,072	-10	-10
Guyana	15,104	15,104	15,104	n.s.	0
Haiti	116	109	105	-1	-1
Holy See	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	7,385	5,430	4,648	-196	-156
Hungary	1,801	1,907	1,976	11	14
Iceland	25	38	46	1	2
India	63,939	67,554	67,701	362	29
Indonesia	116,567	97,852	88,495	-1,872	-1,871
Iran	11,075	11,075	11,075	0	0
Iraq	804	818	822	1	1
Ireland	441	609	669	17	12
Isle of Man	3	3	3	0	0
Israel	154	164	171	1	1
Italy	8,383	9,447	9,979	106	106
Jamaica	345	341	339	n.s.	n.s.
Japan	24,950	24,876	24,868	-7	-2
Jordan	83	83	83	0	0
Kazakhstan	3,422	3,365	3,337	-6	-6
Kenya	3,708	3,582	3,522	-13	-12
Kiribati	2	2	2	0	0
Kuwait	3	5	6	n.s.	n.s.
Kyrgyzstan	836	858	869	2	2
Lao PDR	17,314	16,532	16,142	-78	-78
Latvia	2,775	2,885	2,941	11	11
Lebanon	121	131	136	1	1
Lesotho	5	7	8	n.s.	n.s.
Liberia	4,058	3,455	3,154	-60	-60
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	217	217	217	0	0
Liechtenstein	6	7	7	n.s.	0
Lithuania	1,945	2,020	2,099	8	16
Luxembourg	86	87	87	n.s.	0
Macedonia	906	906	906	0	0
Madagascar	13,692	13,023	12,838	-67	-37
Malawi	3,896	3,567	3,402	-33	-33
Malaysia	22,376	21,591	20,890	-78	-140
Maldives	1	1	1	0	0
Mali	14,072	13,072	12,572	-100	-100
Malta	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Marshall Islands	-	-	-	-	-
Martinique	46	46	46	0	0
Mauritania	415	317	267	-10	-10
Mauritius	39	38	37	n.s.	n.s.
Mayotte	6	6	5	n.s.	n.s.
Mexico	69,016	65,540	64,238	-348	-260
Micronesia, Federated States of	63	63	63	0	0
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	11,492	10,665	10,252	-83	-83
Montserrat	4	4	4	0	0
Morocco	4,289	4,328	4,364	4	7
Mozambique	20,012	19,512	19,262	-50	-50
Myanmar	39,219	34,554	32,222	-466	-466
Namibia	8,762	8,033	7,661	-73	-74
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	4,817	3,900	3,636	-92	-53
Netherlands	345	360	365	2	1
Netherlands Antilles	1	1	1	0	0
New Caledonia	717	717	717	0	0
New Zealand	7,720	8,226	8,309	51	17
Nicaragua	6,538	5,539	5,189	-100	-70
Niger	1,945	1,328	1,266	-62	-12
Nigeria	17,234	13,137	11,089	-410	-410
Niue	17	15	14	n.s.	n.s.
North Korea	8,201	6,821	6,187	-138	-127
Northern Mariana Islands	35	34	33	n.s.	n.s.
Norway	9,130	9,301	9,387	17	17
Oman	2	2	2	0	0
Pakistan	2,527	2,116	1,902	-41	-43
Palau	38	40	40	n.s.	n.s.
Palestine, Occupied Territories	9	9	9	0	0
Panama	4,376	4,307	4,294	-7	-3
Papua New Guinea	31,523	30,132	29,437	-139	-139
Paraguay	21,157	19,368	18,475	-179	-179
Peru	70,156	69,213	68,742	-94	-94
Philippines	10,574	7,949	7,162	-262	-157
Pitcairn	4	4	4	0	0
Poland	8,881	9,059	9,192	18	27
Portugal	3,099	3,583	3,783	48	40
Puerto Rico	404	407	408	n.s.	n.s.
Qatar	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Republic of Moldova	319	326	329	1	1
Réunion	87	87	84	n.s.	-1
Romania	6,371	6,366	6,370	0	1
Russian Federation	808,950	809,268	808,790	32	-96
Rwanda	318	344	480	3	27
Saint Helena	2	2	2	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	5	5	5	0	0
Saint Lucia	17	17	17	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	3	3	3	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	9	10	11	n.s.	n.s.
Samoa	130	171	171	4	0
San Marino	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	27	27	27	0	0
Saudi Arabia	2,728	2,728	2,728	0	0
Senegal	9,348	8,898	8,673	-45	-45
Serbia and Montenegro	2,559	2,649	2,694	9	9
Seychelles	40	40	40	0	0
Sierra Leone	3,044	2,851	2,754	-19	-19
Singapore	2	2	2	0	0
Slovakia	1,922	1,921	1,929	n.s.	2
Slovenia	1,188	1,239	1,264	5	5
Solomon Islands	2,768	2,371	2,172	-40	-40
Somalia	8,282	7,515	7,131	-77	-77
South Africa	9,203	9,203	9,203	0	0
South Georgia - S. Sandwich Islands	0	0	0	0	0
South Korea	6,371	6,300	6,265	-7	-7
Spain	13,479	16,436	17,915	296	296
Sri Lanka	2,350	2,082	1,933	-27	-30
Sudan	76,381	70,491	67,546	-589	-589
Suriname	14,776	14,776	14,776	0	0
Swaziland	472	518	541	5	5
Sweden	27,367	27,474	27,528	11	11
Switzerland	1,155	1,199	1,221	4	4
Syrian Arab Republic	372	432	461	6	6
Tajikistan	408	410	410	n.s.	0
Tanzania	41,441	37,318	35,257	-412	-412
Thailand	15,965	14,814	14,520	-115	-59
Timor-Leste	966	854	798	-11	-11
Togo	685	486	386	-20	-20
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0
Tonga	4	4	4	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	235	228	226	-1	n.s.
Tunisia	643	959	1,056	32	19
Turkey	9,680	10,052	10,175	37	25
Turkmenistan	4,127	4,127	4,127	0	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	34	34	34	0	0
Tuvalu	1	1	1	0	0
Uganda	4,924	4,059	3,627	-86	-86
Ukraine	9,274	9,510	9,575	24	13
United Arab Emirates	245	310	312	6	n.s.
United Kingdom	2,611	2,793	2,845	18	10
United States of America	298,648	302,294	303,089	365	159
United States Virgin Islands	12	10	10	n.s.	n.s.
Uruguay	1,123	1,409	1,506	29	19
Uzbekistan	3,045	3,212	3,295	17	17
Vanuatu	440	440	440	0	0
Venezuela	52,026	49,151	47,713	-288	-288
Viet Nam	9,363	11,725	12,931	236	241
Wallis and Futuna Islands	6	5	5	n.s.	n.s.
Western Sahara	1,011	1,011	1,011	0	0
Yemen	549	549	549	0	0
Zambia	49,124	44,676	42,452	-445	-445
Zimbabwe	22,234	19,105	17,540	-313	-313
Total Africa	699,361	655,613	635,412	-4,375	-4,040
Total Asia	574,477	566,601	571,615	-788	1003
Total Caribbean	5,350	5,706	5,974	36	54
Total Central America	27,639	23,837	22,411	-380	-285
Total East Asia	208,155	225,663	244,862	1,751	3,840
Total Eastern and Southern Africa	252,354	235,047	226,534	-1,731	-1,702
Total Europe	989,320	998,091	1,001,394	877	661
Total North America	677,801	677,971	677,464	17	-101
Total North and Central America	710,790	707,514	705,849	-328	-333
Total Northern Africa	146,093	135,958	131,048	-1,013	-982
Total Oceania	212,514	208,034	206,254	-448	-356
Total South America	891,036	852,796	831,540	-3,824	-4,251
Total South and Southeast Asia	323,156	297,380	283,127	-2,578	-2,851
Total Western and Central Africa	300,914	284,608	277,829	-1,631	-1,356
Total Western and Central Asia	43,166	43,558	43,626	39	14
Total World	4,077,498	3,988,649	3,952,063	-8,885	-7,317