Tropical Forest Community Ecology

Table 26.1

The state of the world’s tropical rainforests: statistics on

the forests and human populations of major rainforest countries.

Totalforest area(1000 km

2 )

Annualforest loss(1000 km

2 )

Annual forestloss

a(%)

Industrialroundwoodproduction(million m

3 )

Populationdensity(per km

2 )

Annualpopulationincrease (%)

GDP

b

per

capita (US$)

Year(s)

2005

2000–2005 2000–2005

2004

2005

2000–2005 2005

AfricaCameroon

212

2.2

1.0

2

34

1.9

941

Congo

225

0.2

0.1

1

12

3.0

1740

Democratic Republic of Congo 1336

3.2

0.2

4

25

2.8

115

Gabon

218

0.1

0.0

4

5

1.7

6680

AsiaIndonesia

885

18.7

2.0

32

117

1.3

1233

Malaysia

209

1.4

0.7

18

77

2.0

5110

Myanmar

322

4.7

1.4

4

75

1.1

107

Thailand

145

0.6

0.4

8

125

0.9

2563

AmericaBrazil

4777

31.0

0.6

103

22

1.4

4297

Colombia

607

0.4

0.1

2

40

1.6

2436

Peru

687

0.9

0.1

1

22

1.5

2763

Venezuela

477

2.9

0.6

1

29

1.8

4956

OtherMadagascar

128

0.4

0.3

0

32

2.8

276

Papua New Guinea

294

1.4

0.5

2

13

2.1

585

Notes

: Note that the statistics for forests and roundw

ood production refer to all forests in that country

, including open woodlands. Data from the online da

tabases of the Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

(FAO), the United Nations Population Division, and

the International Monetary Fund.

aAs a percentage of the remaining forest.bGross domestic product per capita; a measure

of personal income. These figures do not allow for diff

erences in the cost of living.