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

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		2004	2002	2000	1999	1998
World
World		17,469,045	11,457,393	7,709,556	5,192,086	3,550,722
		2004	2002	2000	1999	1998
Region/Classification
Asia (excluding Middle East)		158,399	145,323	55,083	55,083	55,083
Central America & Caribbean		1,184,746	860,225	295,037	261,494	136,556
Europe		6,918,384	4,830,994	3,699,017	2,277,437	1,628,014
Middle East & North Africa		0	0	0	0	0
North America		7,453,906	4,219,887	2,564,825	1,967,675	1,465,872
Oceania		25,498	29,808	9,773	4,310	4,310
South America		1,625,408	1,285,176	935,551	601,237	236,037
Sub-Saharan Africa		102,704	85,980	150,270	24,850	24,850
Developed Countries		14,401,139	9,076,379	6,335,393	4,245,112	3,093,886
Developing Countries		3,067,906	2,381,014	1,374,163	946,974	456,836
High Income Countries		9,199,632	5,928,116	3,967,683	2,027,106	1,488,817
Low Income Countries		92,008	38,718	44,726	38,718	32,820
Middle Income Countries		8,177,405	5,490,559	3,697,147	3,126,262	2,029,085
	ISO	2004	2002	2000	1999	1998
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	81,332	0	0	0	0
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	0
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	0
Belgium	BEL	0	0	0	0	0
Belize	BLZ	104,888	95,800	95,800	95,800	95,800
Benin	BEN	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	BMU	0	0	0	0	0
Bhutan	BTN	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia	BOL	1,012,948	927,263	854,980	520,666	155,466
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	0	0	0	0	0
Botswana	BWA	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	BRA	527,540	357,913	80,571	80,571	80,571
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	4,213,015	971,441	28,015	21,996	21,996
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	3,588	0	0	0	0
China	CHN	0	0	0	0	0
Colombia	COL	0	0	0	0	0
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	475	9,052	8,246	9,052	9,052
Croatia	HRV	0	372,765	166,861	0	0
Cuba	CUB	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	CYP	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Rep	CZE	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	DNK	0	0	36	0	0
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	0
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	0
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	0
France	FRA	0	0	0	0	0
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	22,750	25,897	2,258	4,000	0
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	463,622	310,219	100,026	97,444	12,217
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	37,277	13,868	19,876	13,868	7,970
Hong Kong	HKG	0	0	0	0	0
Hungary	HUN	52,074	0	0	0	0
Iceland	ISL	0	0	0	0	0
India	IND	0	0	0	0	0
Indonesia	IDN	90,240	90,240	0	0	0
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	0	0	0	0	0
Iraq	IRQ	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland	IRL	0	0	0	0	0
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	11,000
Jamaica	JAM	0	0	0	0	0
Japan	JPN	3,351	0	0	0	0
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	779,675	0	0	0	0
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	0
Lithuania	LTU	319,396	0	0	0	0
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	64,808	55,083	55,083	55,083	55,083
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	565,327	431,286	71,089	45,330	11,517
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	61,130	61,130	54,420	0	0
Nauru	NRU	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	NPL	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	NLD	3,896	0	0	0	0
Netherlands Antilles	ANT	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	NCL	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	NZL	25,498	25,498	551	0	0
Nicaragua	NIC	13,157	0	0	0	0
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	0
Oman	OMN	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	PAK	0	0	0	0	0
Palau	PLW	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	PAN	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	PNG	0	4,310	4,310	4,310	4,310
Paraguay	PRY	0	0	0	0	0
Peru	PER	0	0	0	0	0
Philippines	PHL	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	POL	3,204,801	2,742,786	2,129,849	2,218,006	1,605,069
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	0
Russian Federation	RUS	845,561	32,712	0	0	0
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	0
Slovenia	SVN	0	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	SLB	0	0	4,912	0	0
Somalia	SOM	0	0	0	0	0
South Africa	ZAF	0	0	71,000	0	0
Spain	ESP	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	LKA	0	0	0	0	0
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	0
Sweden	SWE	1,612,097	1,598,309	1,362,594	18,012	0
Switzerland	CHE	0	22,087	4,235	4,235	2,095
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	0
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	0
Ukraine	UKR	0	0	0	0	0
United Arab Emirates	ARE	0	0	0	0	0
United Kingdom	GBR	67,134	25,438	22,184	22,184	9,850
United States	USA	3,240,891	3,248,446	2,536,810	1,945,679	1,443,876
Uruguay	URY	0	0	0	0	0
Uzbekistan	UZB	0	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	VUT	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela	VEN	0	0	0	0	0
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	0
Zimbabwe	ZWE	41,574	24,850	24,850	24,850	24,850

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.