Africa - Map and Statistics
| AFRICA STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 29,635,976 km2 | Area of forest: 8,182,057.8 km2 | % Land area forested: 27.6 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Temperate and Boreal | ||||||||||
| 3 Mixed broadleaf/needleleaf forest | 330.2 | 19.9 | 376.5 | 0.0 | 11.4 | 1,005.1 | 0.0 | 32,627.0 | 1,742.9 | 5.3 |
| 5 Deciduous broadleaf forest | 267.3 | 0.0 | 1,505.7 | 0.2 | 2,092.1 | 25.8 | 631.4 | 140,727.0 | 4,522.5 | 3.2 |
| 7 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 16.8 | 0.0 | 77.9 | 0.0 | 37.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17,446.8 | 132.6 | 0.8 |
| 9 Sparse trees/parkland | 141.7 | 1.5 | 1,009.2 | 0.0 | 2,003.9 | 27.5 | 1,568.9 | 253,001.3 | 4,752.6 | 1.9 |
| Tropical | ||||||||||
| 14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rainforest | 1,426.9 | 596.0 | 75,428.3 | 0.0 | 27,203.9 | 0.0 | 22,516.0 | 1,685,243.8 | 127,171.0 | 7.5 |
| 15 Lower montane forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 124.3 | 0.0 | 96.5 | 13.8 | 149.5 | 33,232.3 | 384.1 | 1.2 |
| 16 Upper montane forest | 876.9 | 0.0 | 8,166.2 | 0.0 | 3,890.0 | 0.0 | 12,211.5 | 156,341.3 | 25,144.6 | 16.1 |
| 17 Freshwater swamp forest | 342.7 | 0.0 | 2,262.8 | 0.0 | 77.4 | 0.0 | 193.9 | 196,729.0 | 2,876.8 | 1.5 |
| 18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,897.4 | 0.0 | 662.6 | 14.7 | 293.1 | 47,512.3 | 2,867.8 | 6.0 |
| 21 Mangrove | 13.3 | 0.0 | 360.7 | 0.0 | 645.3 | 0.0 | 159.6 | 53,804.5 | 1,178.9 | 2.2 |
| 22 Disturbed natural forest | 854.8 | 7.9 | 2,125.9 | 0.0 | 3,825.6 | 0.0 | 1,152.2 | 414,479.8 | 7,966.4 | 1.9 |
| 23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest | 1,280.5 | 358.6 | 95,146.6 | 48.4 | 82,752.0 | 225.7 | 91,375.6 | 2,243,589.8 | 271,187.4 | 12.1 |
| 25 Thorn forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,117.8 | 0.0 | 770.7 | 0.0 | 8,176.1 | 192,927.0 | 10,064.6 | 5.2 |
| 26 Sparse trees/parkland | 927.7 | 7.6 | 144,383.8 | 1,477.4 | 87,759.2 | 9.1 | 64,838.9 | 2,714,396.3 | 299,403.7 | 11.0 |
| Total | 6,478.6 | 991.5 | 333,983.0 | 1,526.0 | 211,828.6 | 1,321.7 | 203,266.6 | 8,182,057.8 | 759,396.0 | 9.3 |
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