Research · 21 October 2025 · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
Selected by José Miguel Medeiros
Deforestation has slowed in every region, but fire now affects land on a similar scale.
Key figure
261 million hectares affected by fire each year, nearly half of it forest. Deforestation slowed to 10.9 million hectares a year in 2015-2025.
About the publisher
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the UN agency for food, agriculture, fisheries and forests. Its Forestry Division runs the global forest assessments.
Useful for
Investors and landholders who need authoritative country-level data on forest area, carbon and ownership.
Credit and license FAO. 2025. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6709en. Licence: CC BY 4.0. We host this copy unchanged, under the publisher's open license.
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