Question

Annual rate of deforestation all countries data

Answer 1

1) Honduras: -37%
Historically Honduras was pretty much entirely covered by trees, with half a percent of the land not forested. Today about half of that remains (52%), with just about 16% existing in a frontier forest state. Between 1990-2005, Honduras saw a decline of 37% in its forest cover.

2) Nigeria: -36%
About half the land in Nigeria used to be covered in trees. Today all but about 10% of those have been chopped down, and less than one percent exist as frontier forest. Nigeria has removed 36% of its trees in the past two decades.

3) The Philippines: -32%
The islands that make up the Philippines used to be all forested. Today only 35% of those forests remain; the only (slightly) good news in that is about 28% remain as frontier forest. But with a deforestation rate over the past twenty or so years of 26%, the future isn't so bright.

4) Benin: -31%
Benin didn't start out with great amounts of forest cover -- only about 16% of the land used to be forested -- and a high deforestation rate of 31% doesn't help preserve what remains. Less than 4% of those original forests remain, and none in a frontier forest state.

5) Ghana: -28%
At one point about two-thirds of Ghana was covered with forest; now, less than 10% of that forest cover remains and none as frontier forest. At a rate of decline since 1990 of 28%, that remaining forest doesn't stand a chance without better forestry practices.

6) Indonesia: -26%
Indonesia is a strange case. Like much of Southeast Asia it was historically entirely covered in forest, and over the whole nation some 65% of that forest cover remains, with about 29% in a frontier forest condition. But it's seen a serious decline in that forest cover over the past two decades which doesn't show signs of letting up.

It's also an amazingly large country, and there are local conditions that get minimized in the stats. For example, on Borneo (the world's third largest island) between 1985-2000 more logs were felled than in all of South America and Africa combined. Half of the lowland forest is currently gone and that could increase to two-thirds in just ten years.

7) Nepal & North Korea: -25%
Nepal has about 22% of its original forest cover remaining, non of which is considered frontier forest -- the past two decades saw a 25% decline in forest cover.

At one point nearly all of North Korea was forested, but today about 61% of that has been cleared -- the change in forest cover since 1990 has been a decline of about 25%.

8) Ecuador & Haiti: -22%
Rounding out the bottom of the top, as it were, are Ecuador, Liberia, and Haiti, all of which have witnessed 22% declines in forest cover since 1990.

Ecuador was originally largely forested, but today has about two-thirds of that forest cover remaining. The comparatively good news is that about 37% of that is frontier forest.

Answer 2

Answer:

Forest cover by country; The world's forests today ... Deforestation in New Zealand over the last centuries ... Annual growth rate in forest area by world region, 1990-2009 – FAO (2013)