The pie charts compare the percentage distribution of world forests and timber production across five different regions.
Overall, while North America takes the lead in timber production, Africa is the largest out of 5 categories in forests percentage but produces the least lumber output.Additionally, other regions show a higher percentage of timber than their forest rates.
Regarding the regions with highest forest coverage, North America and Africa account for the majority with 25% and 27% respectively.However, while North America maintains its strong position in timber production at 30%, only 9% are produced by Africa.
As for the remaining regions, there are a general trend, where the proportions of timber are always higher than the world forest percentage.Despite the world forest rate of South America is only 16%, it produces 23% of the world timber production.Similarly, the figure for Europe stands at just 18%, whereas 20% is recorded for the lumber output.Also, Asia follows the same trend, generating 18% of timber from its 14% shares of world forest.
