Source: The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems & Economies on the Edge
(World Resources Institute, 1997), p. 20.
percent of original forest already lost |
square kilometers remaining |
% of total forest remaining in world |
|
Nigeria |
99 |
||
Finland |
99 |
||
Vietnam |
98 |
||
Laos |
98 |
||
Guatemala |
98 |
||
Cote d'Ivoire |
98 |
||
Taiwan |
98 |
||
Sweden |
97 |
||
Bangladesh |
96 |
||
Central African Rep |
96 |
||
Thailand |
95 |
||
Argentina |
94 |
||
New Zealand |
91 |
||
China |
98 |
||
Costa Rica |
90 |
||
Cambodia |
90 |
||
Cameroon |
92 |
||
Brunei |
89 |
||
Honduras |
84 |
||
United States |
94 |
307,000 |
2 |
Nicaragua |
78 |
||
Bhutan |
76 |
||
Mexico |
92 |
||
Gabon |
68 |
||
Sri Lanka |
88 |
||
Panama |
65 |
||
Ecuador |
63 |
||
Zaire |
84 |
292,000 |
1 |
India |
99 |
||
Bolivia |
56 |
255,000 |
1 |
Burma |
94 |
||
Australia |
82 |
||
Papua New Guinea |
60 |
172,000 |
1 |
Congo |
71 |
||
Belize |
65 |
||
Malaysia |
85 |
||
Peru |
43 |
540,000 |
4 |
Indonesia |
72 |
530,000 |
3 |
Chile |
45 |
162,000 |
1 |
Brazil |
58 |
2,284,000 |
17 |
Venezuela |
41 |
391,000 |
3 |
Russia |
71 |
3,448,000 |
26 |
Colombia |
64 |
348,000 |
3 |
Canada |
42 |
3,429,000 |
25 |
Guyana |
18 |
||
Suriname |
8 |
||
French Guiana |
8 |
||
total |
12,158,000 |
90 |
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