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Chart: Where Have Forests Been Lost and Gained?

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Over the last 25 years Brazil lost around half a million square kilometers of forest - around the same area that China gained. Since 1990, the growing demand for forest products and for agricultural land has contributed to an average annual loss of 50,000 square kilometers of forest globally - an area the size of Costa Rica. Read more in "Five forest figures for the International Day of Forests."


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Tariq Khokhar

Global Data Editor & Senior Data Scientist

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