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 provided table gives information on the number of the millions of hectares of forest area in six different continents in the world during a period of fifteen years starting from 1990 to 2005.
It can be seen from the graph that there was a downward trend in the millions of treed region's hectares in Africa, Oceania, North and South America, while Asia and Europe increased moderately. Moreover, the figure for Europe was the highest among the six particular continents over the period investigated.
In 1990, forested region in Europe was 989 million hectares, followed by that of Asia which was 576 million. Then, Europe witnessed a minimal rise of 12 million hectares of forested land and in 2005, the treed region's hectares reached 1001million. At the time, a marginal growth was experienced in the figure for Asia.
However, Europe's biggest rival, South America was 946 million hectares of forested land, 749 million higher than Africa in 1999. In 2005, the figure for both South America and Africa decreased sharply to 882 and 691 million hectares respectively. The hectares of forested land in North America was 708 million, over three times as much as Oceania and in 2005, both North America and Oceania saw a slight decline to 705 and 197 million in turn.