The Scale of Worldwide Timber Production

The Scale Worldwide Timber Production SUPPLY AND DEMAND Timber is required for a number of reasons 50% 42% of global wood harvest is used to make Roughly half Wood fuel of wood is eventually turned into (firewood or charcoal) Paper THE GLOBAL SCALE Rest of the World (26%) I Canada (9%) Russia (9%) |USA (20%) EU (22%) Brazil (8%) | China (6%) Around 30% of the world is covered by forest. That's just over 3.8bn hectares! Global timber and pulp production 3.4 billion $15 billion 1 billion Cubic metres of wood extracted from forests each year The annual cost to developing nations of illegal Togging People worldwide who depend on forests and the services they provide