Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Forestry Division
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
Country-reported forest statistics for 236 countries and territories: forest area, other wooded land, land area, naturally regenerating, planted and primary forest (1990, 2000, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025), annual averages of deforestation, forest expansion, afforestation and natural expansion for 1990-2000 through 2020-2025, growing stock, biomass and carbon, and annual disturbances (fire, insects, diseases, weather) from 2000, with tiers and flags. FRA "forest" is a land-use definition (at least 0.5 ha, more than 10% canopy, trees over 5 m, not mainly agricultural), not satellite tree cover. The report adds FAO's global estimates, which include FAO modelling and a remote sensing survey.
Numbers published from it
Licence and credit
- What the terms say
“Unless specified otherwise in their metadata or webpage, all datasets disseminated through FAO corporate statistical databases (see examples in Annex 1) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)”
From the producer's terms, checked 2026-10-04; re-checked automatically every week.
- Credit we give
- FAO. {year}. Global Forest Resources Assessment. https://fra-data.fao.org. Accessed on: {date_accessed}. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Global estimates: FAO. 2025. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6709en
- Copy of the raw file
- Allowed: we keep a public copy of every version we use.
- Cite as
- FAO. 2025. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6709en. FAO. {year}. Global Forest Resources Assessment. https://fra-data.fao.org. Accessed on: {date_accessed}
Files
FRA 2025 platform bulk download for all countries: FRA_Years, Intervals and Annual CSVs (one file per variable plus combined files with flags), Tiers, NDPYear, README.txt. File names carry the download date.
https://fra-data.fao.org/api/file/bulk-download?assessmentName=fra&cycleName=2025&countryIso=WOGlobal Forest Resources Assessment 2025 main report (cd6709en.pdf, 8.6 MB), source of FAO's published global estimates: forest area 4.14 billion ha (32% of land) and deforestation of 17.6, 13.6 and 10.9 million ha a year in 1990-2000, 2000-2015 and 2015-2025.
https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/12322cae-5b20-4be2-927a-72a86fd319e9/content
Status
- Programme
- FRA 2025 was published on 21 October 2025; the platform serves live bulk downloads and countries may revise their reports between assessments. FAO is not exposed to US federal programme cuts.
- Updates
- Every five years (next assessment FRA 2030), with occasional country revisions on the platform
- Last check
- Unchanged since the last fetch (2026-10-05T11:03:03Z)