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  • Dataset | 21 Jul 2016
Forest area
Bioeconomy

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.