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. 2013 Jun 5;368(1619):20120173. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0173

Table 2.

Deforestation for 2000–2005 in tropical forest countries (excluding Brazil) according to transition category. Range is from medium, low and high estimates of gross forest loss in Harris et al. [39]. Transition includes high and low deforestation transition countries, excluding Brazil.

forest loss in countries with drivers similar to Brazil (km2 yr−1) number of countries with drivers similar to Brazil (total countries in parentheses) total forest loss (km2 yr−1) per cent of total forest loss in countries with drivers similar to Brazil
pre-transition 1970 (480–4730) 4 (12) 5210 (2160–9810) 38 (22–48)
transition 9760 (7410–12 130) 5 (15) 17 670 (10 480–26 320) 55 (46–71)
post-transition 550 (0–1330) 1 (8) 5130 (1940–8880) 11 (0–15)
all tropical forest countries (excluding Brazil) 12 280 (7890–18 190) 10 (35) 28 010 (14 580–44 840) 44 (41–54)
all tropical forest countries (including Brazil) 45 200 (22 840–69 080) 11 (36) 60 930 (29 530–95 730) 74 (72–77)