The two pie charts illustrate the distribution of the world’s forest and timber across five different regions: South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Overall, Africa has the largest share of global forest, while North America leads in Timber land mass. There are noticeable differences in proportions of forest and timber across the five regions, with some areas having relatively higher timber ratio despite a lower chunk of the worlds’ forest coverage.
Africa accounts for the largest share of the world’s forest at 27%, followed by North America at 25%, then Europe at 18%, South America at 16 % and with Asia, occupying the smallest portion of the global forest at 14 %.
Despite having only 25% of the world’s forests, North America tops the highest fraction of Timber produced at 30%. Second on the pie chart for Timber resource is South America at 23%, even though it only ranked 4th among five regions in terms of the global forest percentage at 16%. Followed by Europe, ranked 3rd in both categories, depicts a more seemingly balance distribution of its forest land at 18% and its timber allocation at 20%, yet there’s a perceivable slight variance in the forest land mass and timber division, where the latter is marginally higher. And in Asia, given the least area of forest land of 14%, yielded 18% in Timber distribution. Lastly, Africa albeit having the biggest proportion of word forest area at 27%, only apportioned 9% of it to Timber manufacturing.