the decade to 2025.

An estimated 489 million ha of forest has been lost worldwide through deforestation since 1990, but the rate of loss has slowed. The deforestation rate was estimated at 10.9 million ha per year in 2015-2025, down from 13.6 million ha per year in 2000-2015 and 17.6 million ha per year in 1990-2000. The rate of forest expansion slowed from 9.88 million ha per year in 2000-2015 to 6.78 million ha per year in the decade to 2025.

Deforestation is more extreme in tropical and subtropical forests in emerging economies.

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