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World: Forest types
Tropical (% forest area) | 52% | Subtropical (% forest area) | 9% | Temperate (% forest area) | 13% | Boreal/polar (% forest area) | 25% |
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World: Production, trade and consumption of forest products, 2002
Woodfuel ('000 cubic m), 2002 | Production | 1,796,677 | Imports | 2,524 | Exports | 3,705 | Consumption | 1,795,496 | Industrial roundwood ('000 cubic m), 2002 | Production | 1,587,715,122,996 | Imports | 115,523 | Exports | 1,595,188 | Consumption | 390,918 | Sawnwood ('000 cubic m), 2002 | Production | 115,924,118,481 | Imports | 388,361 | Exports | 195,359 | Consumption | 65,937 | Wood-based panels ('000 cubic m), 2002 | Production | 63,953 | Imports | 197,343 | Exports | 184,715 | Consumption | 39,067 | Pulp for paper ('000 metric tons), 2002 | Production | 38,418 | Imports | 185,364 | Exports | 324,649 | Consumption | 95,000 | Paper and paperboard ('000 metric tons), 2002 | Production | 95,425 | Imports | 324,224 | Exports | World,total | Consumption | |
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World: Environment
Environment - current issues | large areas subject to overpopulation, industrial disasters, pollution (air, water, acid rain, toxic substances), loss of vegetation (overgrazing, deforestation, desertification), loss of wildlife, soil degradation, soil depletion, erosion | Environment - international agreements | large areas subject to severe weather (tropical cyclones), natural disasters (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions) |
World: Land use / Resources
Land use (%) | arable land: 10.73% permanent crops: 1% other: 88.27% (2001) | Natural resources | the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality (especially in Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address |
World: Economy
Economy - overview: | Global output rose by 4.9% in 2004, led by China (9.1%), Russia (6.7%), and India (6.2%). The other 14 successor nations of the USSR and the other old Warsaw Pact nations again experienced widely divergent growth rates; the three Baltic nations continued as strong performers, in the 7% range of growth. Growth results posted by the major industrial countries varied from a small gain in Italy (1.3%) to a strong gain by the United States (4.4%). The developing nations also varied in their growth results, with many countries facing population increases that erode gains in output. Externally, the nation-state, as a bedrock economic-political institution, is steadily losing control over international flows of people, goods, funds, and technology. Internally, the central government often finds its control over resources slipping as separatist regional movements - typically based on ethnicity - gain momentum, e.g., in many of the successor states of the former Soviet Union, in the former Yugoslavia, in India, in Iraq, in Indonesia, and in Canada. Externally, the central government is losing decisionmaking powers to international bodies, notably the European Union. In Western Europe, governments face the difficult political problem of channeling resources away from welfare programs in order to increase investment and strengthen incentives to seek employment. The addition of 75 million people each year to an already overcrowded globe is exacerbating the problems of pollution, desertification, underemployment, epidemics, and famine. Because of their own internal problems and priorities, the industrialized countries devote insufficient resources to deal effectively with the poorer areas of the world, which, at least from an economic point of view, are becoming further marginalized. The introduction of the euro as the common currency of much of Western Europe in January 1999, while paving the way for an integrated economic powerhouse, poses economic risks because of varying levels of income and cultural and political differences among the participating nations. The terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September 2001 accentuate a further growing risk to global prosperity, illustrated, for example, by the reallocation of resources away from investment to anti-terrorist programs. The opening of war in March 2003 between a US-led coalition and Iraq added new uncertainties to global economic prospects. After the coalition victory, the complex political difficulties and the high economic cost of establishing domestic order in Iraq became major global problems that continued into 2005. | GDP - per capita | $9,300 (2005 est.) | GDP - real growth rate (%) | 4.3% (2005 est.)Industries dominated by the onrush of technology, especially in computers, robotics, telecommunications, and medicines and medical equipment; most of these advances take place in OECD nations; only a small portion of non-OECD countries have succeeded in rapidly adjusting to these technological forces; the accelerated development of new industrial (and agricultural) technology is complicating already grim environmental problems | GDP - composition by sector (%) | agriculture: 4%, industry: 32%, services: 64% (2004 est.) | Economic aid - recipient | $154 billion official development assistance (ODA) (2004) | Labor force - by occupation (%) | agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA% | Debt - external | $12.7 trillion (2004 est.) |
World: Population / Demographics
Population (July 2005) | 6,446,131,400 | Population growth rate (%) (2005) | 1.14% | Population density (people/sq km) (2005) | 43.3 | Median age (years) | total: 27.6 years | Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 2.6 (2005 est.) |
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World: Infrastructure
Telephones - main lines in use | 843,923,500 (2003) | Telephones - mobile cellular | NA | Roadways (km) | total: 32,345,165 km paved: 19,403,061 km unpaved: 12,942,104 km (2002) |
World: Health
Life expectancy at birth (years) | total population: 64.33 years male: 62.73 years female: 66.04 years (2005 est.) | Infant mortality rate | 50.11 deaths/1,000 live births | HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate (%) | NA% |
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: References & Data Sources
Environment, Land use / Resources, Economy, Population / Demographics, Infrastructure, Health -- CIA World Factbook, 2005
Forest Cover, Forest types, Breakdown of forest types, Change in Forest Cover, Primary forests, Forest designation, Disturbances affecting forest land, Value of forests, Production, trade and consumption of forest products -- The FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS's Global Forest Resources Assessment (2005) and the State of the World�s Forests (2005, 2003, 2001)
Protected Areas, Plant and animal biodiversity -- United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). 2004. World Database on Protected Areas.
Biosphere reservers -- United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Man and Biosphere Program. 2004. UNESCO - MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory.
RAMSAR sites -- The Bureau of the Convention on Wetlands . 2005. The Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.
World Resources Institute's EarthTrends web site
The 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Population Data -- United Nations Population Fund
With additional analysis by Rhett Butler of mongabay.com
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