Table 4. Average annual losses of TMF areas (in million hectares) due to deforestation (with or without prior degradation), from 1990 to 2020 over intervals of 5 years, 30 years (1990–2019), 20 years (2000–2019), and 10 years (1990–1999, 2000–2009, and 2010–2019) by subregion and continent.
The values appearing in italic indicate those derived from an average percentage of invalid observations (Table 9) higher than 40%.
| Total deforestation on an annual basis by period (Mha) | ||||||||||
| Subregion |
[1990– 1994] |
[1995– 1999] |
[2000– 2004] |
[2005– 2009] |
[2010– 2014] |
[2015– 2019] |
[1990– 2019] |
[1990– 1999] |
[2000– 2009] |
[2010– 2019] |
| West Africa | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.71 | 0.48 | 0.45 | 0.60 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Central Africa |
0.17 | 0.74 | 1.18 | 0.76 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| Southeast Africa |
0.10 | 0.45 | 0.38 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Central America |
0.34 | 0.76 | 0.45 | 0.29 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| South America |
2.57 | 4.44 | 4.35 | 2.54 | 1.73 | 2.16 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 1.9 |
| Continental Southeast Asia |
0.84 | 1.55 | 1.13 | 0.74 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 |
| Insular Southeast Asia |
1.05 | 2.83 | 1.91 | 1.53 | 1.27 | 0.94 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Continent |
[1990– 1994] |
[1995– 1999] |
[2000– 2004] |
[2005– 2009] |
[2010– 2014] |
[2015– 2019] |
[1990– 2019] |
[1990– 1999] |
[2000– 2009] |
[2010– 2019] |
| Africa | 0.33 | 1.38 | 2.26 | 1.42 | 1.54 | 1.65 | 1.43 | 0.86 | 1.84 | 1.59 |
| Latin America |
2.91 | 5.21 | 4.80 | 2.83 | 1.99 | 2.53 | 3.38 | 4.06 | 3.82 | 2.26 |
| Asia-Oceania | 1.89 | 4.38 | 3.04 | 2.27 | 1.83 | 1.48 | 2.48 | 3.14 | 2.65 | 1.65 |
| Total | 5.14 | 10.97 | 10.10 | 6.52 | 5.35 | 5.66 | 7.29 | 8.06 | 8.31 | 5.51 |