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Forest area

  • Dataset | 21 Jul 2016
Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre

Data on forest area by type (i.e. forests, wooded land and forests available for wood supply) and country expressed thousand hectares.

Data not collected by Eurostat, but by the FAO, UNECE, Forest Euope, the European Commission's departments for Environment and the Joint Research Centre. They include forest area, wood volume, defoliation on sample plots, fires and areas with protective functions.

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Update / Data frequency
every five years
Geographic coverageEurope
Temporal coverage
to
Originally published

21 Jul 2016

Related organisation(s)Eurostat - Statistical office of the EU
Knowledge service | MetadataBioeconomy Knowledge Centre
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)EnvironmentforestForest management
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