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Forests, Grasslands and Drylands — Forest Certification: FSC-certified forest area, total Units: Hectares

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		1998	1999	2000	2002	2004
World
World		5,806,231	11,585,820	20,746,552	27,227,418	41,655,955
		1998	1999	2000	2002	2004
Region/Classification
Asia (excluding Middle East)		55,083	55,083	158,206	245,395	466,883
Central America & Caribbean		211,362	345,257	426,634	1,032,902	1,249,212
Europe		3,348,751	7,051,280	14,337,682	16,255,267	26,077,724
Middle East & North Africa		0	0	0	0	0
North America		1,487,988	2,291,601	2,889,277	5,860,065	8,086,069
Oceania		6,615	6,615	410,078	653,970	756,429
South America		463,101	1,079,938	1,550,538	2,109,903	3,281,252
Sub-Saharan Africa		233,331	756,046	974,137	1,069,916	1,738,386
Developed Countries		5,047,525	10,028,728	18,421,262	23,630,205	36,644,279
Developing Countries		758,706	1,557,092	2,325,290	3,597,213	5,118,076
High Income Countries		3,233,975	7,127,180	14,437,334	18,302,899	21,909,198
Low Income Countries		32,820	86,372	111,465	124,429	213,702
Middle Income Countries		2,539,436	4,372,268	6,197,753	8,800,090	19,533,055
	ISO	1998	1999	2000	2002	2004
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	DZA	0	0	0	0	0
American Samoa	ASM	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	AGO	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	ARG	0	0	0	0	130,993
Armenia	ARM	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	ABW	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	AUS	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	AUT	0	0	0	0	4,044
Azerbaijan	AZE	0	0	0	0	0
Bahamas	BHS	0	0	0	0	0
Bahrain	BHR	0	0	0	0	0
Bangladesh	BGD	0	0	0	0	0
Barbados	BRB	0	0	0	0	0
Belarus	BLR	0	0	0	0	106,400
Belgium	BEL	0	0	4,342	4,342	5,999
Belize	BLZ	95,800	95,800	95,800	95,800	104,888
Benin	BEN	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	BMU	0	0	0	0	0
Bhutan	BTN	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia	BOL	155,466	520,666	884,980	927,263	1,012,948
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	0	0	0	0	0
Botswana	BWA	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	BRA	307,635	559,272	665,558	1,182,640	1,463,718
British Virgin Islands	VGB	0	0	0	0	0
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	BGR	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso	BFA	0	0	0	0	0
Burundi	BDI	0	0	0	0	0
Cambodia	KHM	0	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	CMR	0	0	0	0	0
Canada	CAN	43,992	43,992	30,046	1,972,361	4,253,822
Cape Verde	CPV	0	0	0	0	0
Cayman Islands	CYM	0	0	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	0	0	0	0	0
Central African Rep	CAF	0	0	0	0	0
Chad	TCD	0	0	0	0	0
Channel Islands		0	0	0	0	0
Chile	CHL	0	0	0	0	376,364
China	CHN	0	0	0	0	940
Colombia	COL	0	0	0	0	58,444
Comoros	COM	0	0	0	0	0
Congo	COG	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	COK	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	CRI	12,381	21,338	40,538	85,986	49,346
Croatia	HRV	0	0	166,861	372,765	1,988,480
Cuba	CUB	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	CYP	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Rep	CZE	0	0	10,441	10,441	10,441
Denmark	DNK	0	0	36	372	372
Djibouti	DJI	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	DMA	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Rep	DOM	0	0	0	0	0
Ecuador	ECU	0	0	0	0	21,341
Egypt	EGY	0	0	0	0	0
El Salvador	SLV	0	0	0	0	0
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea	ERI	0	0	0	0	0
Estonia	EST	0	0	0	0	1,063,517
Ethiopia	ETH	0	0	0	0	0
Faeroe Islands	FRO	0	0	0	0	0
Falkland Islands	FLK	0	0	0	0	0
Finland	FIN	0	0	0	0	93
France	FRA	0	0	1,050	15,363	15,325
French Guiana	GUF	0	0	0	0	0
French Polynesia	PYF	0	0	0	0	0
Gabon	GAB	0	0	0	0	0
Gambia	GMB	0	0	0	0	0
Georgia	GEO	0	0	0	0	0
Germany	DEU	26,420	94,914	222,182	417,673	524,532
Ghana	GHA	0	0	0	0	0
Gibraltar	GIB	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	GRC	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland	GRL	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	GRD	0	0	0	0	0
Guadeloupe	GLP	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	GUM	0	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	GTM	12,217	97,444	100,026	312,461	469,226
Guinea	GIN	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	0	0	0	0	0
Guyana	GUY	0	0	0	0	0
Haiti	HTI	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	HND	7,970	13,868	19,876	13,868	37,277
Hong Kong	HKG	0	0	0	0	0
Hungary	HUN	0	0	0	0	188,687
Iceland	ISL	0	0	0	0	0
India	IND	0	0	0	0	0
Indonesia	IDN	0	0	72,278	151,589	90,240
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	0	0	0	0	0
Iraq	IRQ	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland	IRL	0	0	0	0	438,000
Isle of Man		0	0	0	0	0
Israel	ISR	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	ITA	11,000	11,000	11,000	11,000	11,411
Jamaica	JAM	0	0	0	0	0
Japan	JPN	0	0	3,319	6,390	266,489
Jordan	JOR	0	0	0	0	0
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0	0	0	0	0
Kenya	KEN	0	0	0	0	0
Kiribati	KIR	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, Dem People's Rep	PRK	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, Rep	KOR	0	0	0	0	0
Kuwait	KWT	0	0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	0	0	0	0	0
Lao People's Dem Rep	LAO	0	0	0	0	0
Latvia	LVA	0	0	0	0	1,685,932
Lebanon	LBN	0	0	0	0	0
Lesotho	LSO	0	0	0	0	0
Liberia	LBR	0	0	0	0	0
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	LBY	0	0	0	0	0
Liechtenstein	LIE	0	0	0	0	7,372
Lithuania	LTU	0	0	0	0	385,537
Luxembourg	LUX	0	0	0	0	0
Macau	MAC	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	0	0	0	0	0
Madagascar	MDG	0	0	0	0	0
Malawi	MWI	0	0	0	0	0
Malaysia	MYS	55,083	55,083	55,083	67,517	77,242
Maldives	MDV	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	MLI	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	MLT	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	MHL	0	0	0	0	0
Martinique	MTQ	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	MRT	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritius	MUS	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	MEX	82,887	116,700	169,215	516,404	565,327
Micronesia, Fed States	FSM	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova, Rep	MDA	0	0	0	0	0
Monaco	MCO	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	MNG	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	MAR	0	0	0	0	0
Mozambique	MOZ	0	0	0	0	0
Myanmar	MMR	0	0	0	0	0
Namibia	NAM	0	0	54,420	61,130	61,130
Nauru	NRU	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	NPL	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	NLD	0	16,425	69,064	102,522	127,056
Netherlands Antilles	ANT	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	NCL	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	NZL	2,305	2,305	362,856	610,258	717,027
Nicaragua	NIC	0	0	0	0	13,157
Niger	NER	0	0	0	0	0
Nigeria	NGA	0	0	0	0	0
Niue	NIU	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	NOR	0	0	0	0	5,100
Oman	OMN	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	PAK	0	0	0	0	0
Palau	PLW	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	PAN	107	107	1,179	8,383	9,991
Papua New Guinea	PNG	4,310	4,310	4,310	4,310	0
Paraguay	PRY	0	0	0	0	2,700
Peru	PER	0	0	0	0	0
Philippines	PHL	0	0	14,800	14,800	14,800
Poland	POL	1,605,069	2,218,006	2,742,786	3,592,160	6,186,018
Portugal	PRT	0	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	PRI	0	0	0	0	0
Qatar	QAT	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	REU	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	ROU	0	0	0	0	31,611
Russian Federation	RUS	0	0	32,712	215,715	1,395,479
Rwanda	RWA	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Helena	SHN	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	WSM	0	0	0	0	0
San Marino	SMR	0	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome & Principe	STP	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	SAU	0	0	0	0	0
Senegal	SEN	0	0	0	0	0
Serbia and Montenegro	YUG	0	0	0	0	0
Seychelles	SYC	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	SLE	0	0	0	0	0
Singapore	SGP	0	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	SVK	0	0	0	0	43,659
Slovenia	SVN	0	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	SLB	0	0	42,912	39,402	39,402
Somalia	SOM	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	ZAF	208,481	683,542	828,128	898,225	1,496,970
Spain	ESP	0	0	0	0	1,135
Sri Lanka	LKA	0	0	12,726	5,099	16,251
St. Lucia	LCA	0	0	0	0	0
St. Vincent & Grenadines	VCT	0	0	0	0	0
Sudan	SDN	0	0	0	0	0
Suriname	SUR	0	0	0	0	0
Swaziland	SWZ	0	0	0	0	17,018
Sweden	SWE	1,694,200	3,789,637	9,867,087	10,130,310	10,311,603
Switzerland	CHE	2,112	4,252	48,801	83,937	243,185
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwan	TWN	0	0	0	0	0
Tajikistan	TJK	0	0	0	0	0
Tanzania	TZA	0	0	0	0	0
Thailand	THA	0	0	0	0	921
Timor-Leste	TMP	0	0	0	0	0
Togo	TGO	0	0	0	0	0
Tonga	TON	0	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	0	0	0	0	0
Tunisia	TUN	0	0	0	0	0
Turkey	TUR	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	TKM	0	0	0	0	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	0	0	0	0	0
Uganda	UGA	0	0	0	0	35,000
Ukraine	UKR	0	0	203,000	238,000	152,350
United Arab Emirates	ARE	0	0	0	0	0
United Kingdom	GBR	9,950	917,046	958,320	1,060,667	1,144,386
United States	USA	1,443,996	2,247,609	2,859,231	3,887,704	3,832,247
Uruguay	URY	0	0	0	0	75,094
Uzbekistan	UZB	0	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	VUT	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela	VEN	0	0	0	0	139,650
Viet Nam	VNM	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands	VIR	0	0	0	0	0
Western Sahara		0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	YEM	0	0	0	0	0
Zambia	ZMB	0	0	0	0	983
Zimbabwe	ZWE	24,850	72,504	91,589	110,561	127,285

Footnotes

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Source

WRI compilation of data from: Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004. Forests Certified by FSC-Accredited Certification Bodies. Document 5.3.3. Oaxaca, Mexico, FSC. Available online at: http://www.fscoax.org/principal.htm.