Global Forest Resources Assessment: Key Findings

Abstract

The world has a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha) which is 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person - although forests are not distributed equally among the world's peoples or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent) followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains.