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This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. [1] [need quotation to verify]
Bolivia has the 13th largest national share of the world's forest cover. [142] As of 2015, its primary forest cover was 36.2 million hectares, the 13th largest national area in the world and representing 2.8% of the worldwide total. [142] Bolivia also has the seventh largest amount of tropical rainforest.
In 2021, over 100 world leaders, representing countries containing more than 85% of the world's forests, committed to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. [ 281 ] Land rights
Forest area (sq. km) data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, made available by Google; Luck Baker, Andrew (18 November 2008). "The first forests – Discovery 2008". BBC Online. "The World's 10 Most Threatened Forest Hotspots". Conservation International. 2 February 2011. Schlich, Wilhelm; Pinchot, Gifford (1911).
Key World Energy Statistics [7] UN Energy Statistics Database [8] Fisheries. UN Food and Agriculture Organization [9] Forests. UN Food and Agriculture Organization [10] Fertilizer. International Fertilizer Industry Association [11] Food and agriculture. UN Food and Agriculture Organization. FAOSTAT [12] Population. United Nations Population ...
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
The positive force of forest migration, plant population expansion, is governed by the seed dispersal capacity of the tree species' population and seedling establishment success. The population expansion limiting force, negative force, is the suppression by the environment of species' success in an area.
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]