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Table 7.8: Ownership of forest area 2000

Region/
subregion
No. of countries Forest area
(1 000)
% of total forest area Private ownership Public ownership Other ownership
1 000 ha % 1 000 ha % 1 000 ha %
1 hectare (ha) = 10 000 square meters (m2) = 0.01 square kilometres (km2)
Eastern and Southern Africa 14 203 816 86.7 7 057 3.5 193 751 95.1 3 008 1.5
Northern Africa 12 126 452 93.0 2 124 1.7 124 209 98.2 119 0.1
Western and Central Africa 12 222 058 78.0 771 0.4 221 288 99.7 0 0.0
Total Africa 38 552 326 84.3 9 951 1.8 539 248 97.6 3 127 0.6
East Asia 5 225 663 100.0 18 875 8.4 206 788 91.6 0 0.0
South and Southeast Asia 17 297 379 100.0 8 835 3.0 285 478 96.0 3 066 1.0
Western and Central Asia 22 43 385 99.6 619 1.4 42 617 98.2 148 0.3
Total Asia 44 566 427 100.0 28 329 5.0 534 884 94.4 3 214 0.6
Total Europe 39 998 071 100.0 99 631 10.0 897 059 89.9 1 380 0.1
Caribbean 9 3 669 64.3 536 14.6 3 061 83.4 72 2.0
Central America 5 16 645 69.8 9 343 56.1 7 073 42.5 230 1.4
North America 4 677 971 100.0 198 645 29.3 452 343 66.7 26 982 4.0
Total North and Central America 18 698 285 98.7 208 525 29.9 462 477 66.2 27 284 3.9
Total Oceania 11 204 933 98.5 48 575 23.7 125 527 61.3 30 831 15.0
Total South America 7 136 240 16.0 23 528 17.3 103 379 75.9 9 333 6.9
World 157 3 156 281 79.1 418 538 13.3 2 662 573 84.4 75 170 2.4

Source: WHO  Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005,
Progress towards sustainable forest management

Chapter 7 Socio-economic functions. p.122.

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Other Figures & Tables on this publication:

Table 1.1: FRA 2005 reporting tables

Table 1.2: Indicative linkages among reporting tables and thematic elements of sustainable forest management

Table 1.3: Key statistics for regions and subregions used in FRA 2005

Table 2.1: Distribution of forests by subregion

Table 2.3: Forest cover by subregion 2005

Table 2.8: Carbon stock per hectare 2005

Table 2.10: Trends in carbon stocks in forest biomass 1990–2005

Table 3.3: Area of forest designated primarily for conservation of biodiversity 2005

Table 4.1: Average area of forest annually affected by fire 1998–2002

Table 4.3: Average area of forest annually affected by insects 1998–2002

Table 4.4: Average area of forest annually affected by diseases 1998–2002

Table 4.7: Average area of forest annually affected by other disturbances 1998–2002

Table 5.1: Area of forest designated primarily for production 2005

Table 5.7: Forest area and growing stock 2005

Table 5.13: Removals of four categories of Non-Wood Forest Products 2005 (tonnes)

Table 6.2: Area of forest designated primarily for protection 2005

Table 5.8: Commercial growing stock 2005

Table 6.3 Total area of forest designated for protection 2005

Table 7.2: Value of wood removals 2005

Table 7.4: Value of Non-Wood Forest Products removals 2005

Table 7.6: Number of people employed in forestry in 2000

Table 7.8: Ownership of forest area 2000

Table 8.2: Trends towards sustainable forest management at the global level

Table 8.3 Trends towards sustainable forest management in Africa

Table 8.4: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Asia

Table 8.5: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Europe

Table 8.6: Trends towards sustainable forest management in North and Central America

Table 8.7: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Oceania

Table 8.8: Trends towards sustainable forest management in South America

Table 8.9: Trends towards sustainable forest management by subregion

Table 5.10: Trends in commercial growing stock 1990–2005

Figure 1.1: Regional and Subregional breakdown used in FRA 2005

Figure 2.2: The world’s forests

Figure 2.3: Ten countries with largest forest ares 2005 (million ha)

Figure 2.5: Forest Change Dynamics

Figure 2.9: Forest characteristics 2005 (%)

Figure 2.12: Total Carbon Stock (C) in forests by region 2005

Figure 3.3: Ten countries with the largest area of primary forest 2005 (%)

Figure 3.11: Number of native forest tree species

Figure 3.13: Average number of threatened tree species by region

Figure 5.5: Ten countries with largest area of productive forest plantations 2005 (%)

Figure 5.8: Five countries with greatest total growing stock 2005 (%)

Figure 5.10: Five countries with largest volume of wood removal 2005 (%)

Figure 6.1: Information availability – protective functions of forest resources

Figure 7.7: Ownership of forests by subregion 2000

Figure 8.1: Designated functions of forests globally 2005 (%)

Figure 8.2 Distribution of subregional trends

Forest cover by subregion 2005 and distribution

Box 1.1 Thematic elements of sustainable forest management

Box 2.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on planted forests

Box 2.2 FRA 2005 thematic study on mangroves

Box 2.3 FRA 2005 thematic study on bamboo

Box 4.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest fires

Box 4.2 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest pests

Box 6.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forests and water

Box 7.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest ownership and resource tenure