This table provides the percentage of land area covered by forest in seven countries in 1990 and 2000. I am going to describe and analyse this data in order to explain it by comparing the differencies between the countries represented.
First of all, something noteworth is that there is a decrease of around 3% to 11% in the percentage of forest cover in Brazil, Indonesia and Japan. However, the opposite phenomenon has happenened in Portugal and New Zealand, where there has been a decrease of 4% each. In Suriname and Singapour, no change has been notified.
We shall now analyse those percentages. For Japan, we can hypothetyse on the fact that there has been a rise in the industry capacity of the country, which has lead to the cut a several forests. This could also have happenened to Brazil and Indonesia, but another theory is the exponential increase of global warming, which may have caused fires in their forests.
Furthermore, Portugal and New Zealand may have decided to plant more trees in order to face the effects of global warming in the coming years, which explains the increase of forest cover in those countries.
To conclude, there are some distinctions between those countries, that are not cleary understandable by reading the document so we can only hypothetyse on these.