The table provides key information about forested area in millions of hectares in different regions of the world in 1990,2000 and 2005.
Overall, it is clear from the table that Europe had the largest area throughout the period, while Oceania recorded the smallest area. In addition, most of regions had decline in foreast land, wheares Asia showed the opposite.
At the beginning, in 1990, Europe had the highest area at value 989 million hectares, followed by South America which was considered the second region that had the highest value of land 946 million hecrares, Africa and North America recorded about 749 million and 708 million, respectively. Oceania had the lowest value in this year aroud 199 million hectares.
In 2005, it happened some changes about forested land in different parts, where the value of forest lands had decreased in Africa, Asia, North America, Oceania and South America. In contrast, Europe had increased of area at value 998 million hectares.
According to what is shown. In 2005, Europe had rose to about 1001 million hectares, while South America and Africa a similar decline was seen, whereas. Asia had a small increase around 584 million hectares.