Table 1. IFL extent and area reduction per geographic region.

Geographic region	Forest zone area (km2 × 106)	IFL 2000 area (km2 × 106)	IFL proportion of the forest zone in 2000 (%)	*Forest proportion within IFL 2000 (%)	IFL proportion of global IFL area in 2000 (%)	IFL 2013 area (km2 × 106)	IFL area reduction 2000–2013 (%)	IFL area reduction 2000–2013, not attributed to fire (%)
Africa	9.08	1.00	11.0	99.8	7.8	0.90	10.1	10.1
Australia	1.01	0.13	12.4	55.6	1.0	0.10	21.9	15.3
South America, temperate	0.41	0.16	38.2	43.4	1.2	0.15	1.3	0.9
South America, tropical	14.70	4.43	30.1	98.9	34.6	4.11	7.3	7.1
North America, temperate and southern boreal	5.85	0.54	9.2	66.5	4.2	0.46	15.5	11.2
North America, northern boreal	3.89	3.04	78.2	63.8	23.7	2.94	3.3	0.3
Northern Eurasia, temperate and southern boreal	11.96	1.23	10.3	69.8	9.6	1.12	9.1	7.4
Northern Eurasia, northern boreal	3.33	1.57	47.0	75.7	12.2	1.50	4.4	1.8
Southeast Asia	7.38	0.72	9.8	93.7	5.6	0.62	13.9	13.9
World total	57.60	12.81	22.2	82.3	100.0	11.89	7.2	5.7

*Forest is defined here as land with tree canopy cover above 25%, as depicted by the global tree cover product (18).