The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The table illustrates the number of hectares of woodland in six separate continents of the world from 1990 to 2005.
Overall, Europe had the largest forest cover among the continents all over the world and its space for forested land kept increasing until 2005. Whereas, the hectares of forest in most parts of the globe decreased over the period.
From the data, in rank order, Europe ranked the first in having the largest forested area, with 989.000.000 ha in 1989 and rose up to 1001.000.000 ha in fifteen years. The following position was South America, which owned 946.000.000 green hectares in 1990, however, this number went down to 882.000.000 in the final year.
According to the given data of 1990, Africa was covered more by forest than North America was. Things reversed in 2005, while the number of hectares of forest of Africa significantly dropped to 691.000.000, there was only a small change in this number of North America, which made it 705.000.000.
Both Asia and Oceania ranked the lasts among six continents. Although some fluctuations were recorded in this period, there was not much change in the number of forest cover of two continents. They were covered by 584.000.000 ha and 197.000.000 ha woodland in 2005, respectively.
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