Deforestation statistics for United Kingdom

United Kingdom: Demographic data

Population (2022)	67,886,011
Annual population growth rate (2022)	0.50%
Population density (people/sq km)	281
Net migration	260,650
Fertility rate	1.8
Median age	40
Urban population share	83%

United Kingdom: Land cover and land use change data

Land area (sq km): 241,930

Tree cover (30%)
Tree cover extent in 2000 (ha): 3,695,622
Tree cover extent as % of land area: 15.3%

Tree cover loss from 2001-20 (ha): 480,524
Tree cover extent as % of 2000 tree cover: 13.0%

United Kingdom: Annual forest and tree cover data

United Kingdom: Tree cover loss by year

30% tree cover threshold; all figures in hectares

Year: Hectares
2001: 23,244
2002: 20,112
2003: 1,875
2004: 24,847
2005: 8,873
2006: 21,054
2007: 31,223
2008: 12,505
2009: 37,710
2010: 28,469
2011: 22,657
2012: 35,669
2013: 28,596
2014: 30,372
2015: 23,997
2016: 28,808
2017: 23,042
2018: 26,252
2019: 28,377
2020: 22,843

Tree cover loss by year at the subnational level (administrative level 1)

Sub-national admin area 1	Tree cover extent (2001) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-05) ha	Tree cover loss (2006-10) ha	Tree cover loss (2011-15) ha	Tree cover loss (2016-20) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-20) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-20) %
England	1,519,107	24,203	34,964	21,860	19,343	100,371	6.6%
Northern Ireland	194,401	4,534	4,755	5,036	4,646	18,971	9.8%
Scotland	1,594,874	37,767	75,621	102,432	91,982	307,802	19.3%
Wales	387,218	12,447	15,620	11,961	13,349	53,377	13.8%

Tree cover loss by year at the subnational level (administrative level 2)

Sub-national admin area 1	Admin area 2	Tree cover extent (2000) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-05) ha	Tree cover loss (2006-10) ha	Tree cover loss (2011-15) ha	Tree cover loss (2016-20) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-20) ha	Tree cover loss (2001-20) %
Wales	Denbighshire	21,318	634	759	658	705	2,756	12.9%
England	Bradford	4,929	274	280	80	28	662	13.4%
England	Tameside	1,409	26	27	4	0	56	4.0%
England	Telford and Wrekin	2,725	6	17	7	11	40	1.5%
England	Thurrock	530	1	1	0	0	3	0.6%
England	Torbay	555	1	0	1	7	9	1.6%
England	Trafford	1,230	2	3	0	0	5	0.4%
England	Wakefield	2,279	15	10	4	1	30	1.3%
England	Walsall	755	1	2	0	0	4	0.5%
England	Warrington	1,638	4	3	2	0	9	0.5%
England	Warwickshire	12,011	90	52	31	16	189	1.6%
England	West Berkshire	9,520	52	113	58	53	276	2.9%
England	Brighton and Hove	345	2	2	0	0	4	1.2%
England	West Sussex	42,327	98	365	341	270	1,073	2.5%
England	Wigan	2,035	6	10	2	0	18	0.9%
England	Wiltshire	28,382	194	155	168	142	658	2.3%
England	Windsor and Maidenhead	4,136	3	25	24	9	60	1.5%
England	Wirral	1,168	2	2	1	1	4	0.3%
England	Wokingham	3,567	4	21	9	7	42	1.2%
England	Wolverhampton	332	1	0	0	0	2	0.6%
England	Worcestershire	17,285	89	45	29	36	200	1.2%
England	York	1,754	16	25	18	25	84	4.8%
England	Bristol	629	1	1	0	0	2	0.3%
England	Buckinghamshire	19,494	42	109	108	95	354	1.8%
England	Bury	1,303	3	3	0	0	6	0.5%
England	Calderdale	5,706	416	202	27	1	646	11.3%
England	Cambridgeshire	22,623	81	325	97	70	573	2.5%
England	Central Bedfordshire	6,143	17	109	76	30	231	3.8%
England	Cheshire East	15,808	55	97	42	43	237	1.5%
England	Cheshire West and Chester	7,072	38	78	24	17	158	2.2%
England	Bath and North East Somerset	3,418	24	6	8	2	40	1.2%
England	Cornwall	42,761	318	365	300	262	1,246	2.9%
England	Coventry	321	0	0	0	0	1	0.3%
England	Cumbria	82,418	2,951	4,452	3,463	2,789	13,654	16.6%
England	Darlington	1,070	4	1	3	7	14	1.3%
England	Derby	411	1	0	0	0	1	0.2%
England	Derbyshire	40,105	559	516	212	244	1,530	3.8%
England	Devon	99,914	842	1,027	1,097	1,245	4,212	4.2%
England	Doncaster	4,095	15	19	10	58	102	2.5%
England	Dorset	34,807	316	550	550	503	1,919	5.5%
England	Dudley	663	1	1	0	0	3	0.5%
England	Bedfordshire	1,913	2	4	4	2	12	0.6%
England	Durham	24,065	1,743	1,826	606	596	4,771	19.8%
England	East Riding of Yorkshire	7,925	43	50	22	39	154	1.9%
England	East Sussex	41,933	64	257	230	126	677	1.6%
England	Essex	21,744	36	58	43	26	163	0.7%
England	Gateshead	2,085	19	28	25	6	79	3.8%
England	Gloucestershire	36,220	203	284	235	149	872	2.4%
England	Greater London	16,812	10	22	14	4	50	0.3%
England	Halton	472	1	2	0	0	4	0.8%
England	Hampshire	73,891	550	1,094	674	516	2,834	3.8%
England	Hartlepool	770	13	2	16	27	58	7.5%
England	Birmingham	2,371	7	6	3	0	15	0.6%
England	Herefordshire	27,988	99	254	279	223	855	3.1%
England	Hertfordshire	20,409	19	109	43	14	185	0.9%
England	Isle of Wight	5,967	49	25	9	7	90	1.5%
England	Isles of Scilly	431	2	9	1	1	12	2.8%
England	Kent	51,288	102	232	220	145	699	1.4%
England	Kingston upon Hull	184	1	1	0	0	2	1.1%
England	Kirklees	7,525	100	79	39	15	233	3.1%
England	Knowsley	889	2	11	5	5	23	2.6%
England	Lancashire	29,052	910	1,225	429	258	2,822	9.7%
England	Leeds	6,842	78	33	11	20	142	2.1%
England	Blackburn with Darwen	1,819	60	52	2	36	150	8.2%
England	Leicester	292	0	0	0	0	1	0.3%
England	Leicestershire	11,138	125	66	56	21	269	2.4%
England	Lincolnshire	23,876	256	196	187	112	751	3.1%
England	Luton	169	0	1	0	0	1	0.6%
England	Manchester	1,520	5	4	0	1	10	0.7%
England	Medway	1,463	3	6	2	0	12	0.8%
England	Middlesbrough	242	0	0	0	0	1	0.4%
England	Milton Keynes	1,630	8	13	5	5	31	1.9%
England	Newcastle upon Tyne	618	9	1	4	0	15	2.4%
England	Norfolk	47,210	239	843	565	452	2,098	4.4%
England	Blackpool	54	0	0	0	0	0	0.0%
England	North Lincolnshire	3,749	15	19	28	28	89	2.4%
England	North Somerset	4,791	15	5	5	5	29	0.6%
England	North Tyneside	287	6	1	0	0	7	2.4%
England	North Yorkshire	118,968	5,000	8,259	2,560	1,984	17,803	15.0%
England	Northamptonshire	16,864	189	325	104	63	681	4.0%
England	Northumberland	83,207	5,607	6,928	5,949	5,776	24,261	29.2%
England	Nottingham	657	1	0	0	0	1	0.2%
England	Nottinghamshire	17,642	162	241	145	215	763	4.3%
England	Oldham	1,426	59	22	2	0	84	5.9%
England	Oxfordshire	20,782	125	128	105	67	426	2.0%
England	Bolton	1,735	14	15	2	3	33	1.9%
England	Peterborough	2,030	3	14	2	2	20	1.0%
England	Plymouth	840	3	1	1	3	8	1.0%
England	Poole	1,371	7	4	5	3	19	1.4%
England	Portsmouth	167	0	0	0	0	0	0.0%
England	Reading	675	0	1	2	0	3	0.4%
England	Redcar and Cleveland	4,375	48	134	76	52	310	7.1%
England	Rochdale	1,581	27	10	0	0	38	2.4%
England	Rotherham	1,862	10	4	1	0	15	0.8%
England	Rutland	2,009	67	34	34	1	136	6.8%
England	Saint Helens	955	7	4	0	0	11	1.2%
England	Bournemouth	544	1	1	1	1	4	0.7%
England	Salford	989	1	3	1	0	5	0.5%
England	Sandwell	824	2	1	0	0	3	0.4%
England	Sefton	1,548	10	19	5	3	37	2.4%
England	Sheffield	9,374	111	179	162	89	541	5.8%
England	Shropshire	39,440	356	434	317	508	1,615	4.1%
England	Slough	375	0	1	0	0	1	0.3%
England	Solihull	1,523	7	4	3	4	18	1.2%
England	Somerset	37,748	317	383	485	479	1,664	4.4%
England	South Gloucestershire	3,147	13	16	9	8	46	1.5%
England	South Tyneside	162	0	0	0	0	1	0.6%
England	Bracknell Forest	3,771	14	112	101	155	382	10.1%
England	Southampton	773	11	3	0	0	15	1.9%
England	Southend-on-Sea	114	0	0	0	0	0	0.0%
England	Staffordshire	35,251	361	331	249	257	1,197	3.4%
England	Stockport	2,244	4	3	0	0	8	0.4%
England	Stockton-on-Tees	1,437	13	2	18	6	39	2.7%
England	Stoke-on-Trent	801	5	2	0	0	7	0.9%
England	Suffolk	31,732	168	694	465	549	1,876	5.9%
England	Sunderland	782	7	2	2	0	12	1.5%
England	Surrey	55,439	53	745	445	297	1,540	2.8%
England	Swindon	817	11	4	1	0	16	2.0%
Northern Ireland	Antrim and Newtownabbey	7,597	35	36	22	10	104	1.4%
Northern Ireland	Newry, Mourne and Down	19,374	173	285	504	308	1,270	6.6%
Northern Ireland	North Down and Ards	7,011	20	12	30	5	66	0.9%
Northern Ireland	Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon	14,470	146	232	124	46	547	3.8%
Northern Ireland	Belfast	910	28	1	1	0	30	3.3%
Northern Ireland	Causeway Coast and Glens	36,967	1,232	675	1,270	1,121	4,299	11.6%
Northern Ireland	Derry and Strabane	18,757	426	732	428	523	2,109	11.2%
Northern Ireland	Fermanagh and Omagh	47,965	1,282	2,125	1,889	1,986	7,282	15.2%
Northern Ireland	Lisburn and Castlereagh	6,264	68	15	29	6	117	1.9%
Northern Ireland	Mid and East Antrim	15,330	691	151	239	304	1,386	9.0%
Northern Ireland	Mid Ulster	19,758	433	491	502	336	1,763	8.9%
Scotland	Aberdeen	3,964	31	116	119	90	355	9.0%
Scotland	East Lothian	11,169	338	381	370	171	1,261	11.3%
Scotland	East Renfrewshire	3,306	6	126	57	148	338	10.2%
Scotland	Edinburgh	4,205	90	26	38	15	169	4.0%
Scotland	Eilean Siar	8,674	54	36	96	5	191	2.2%
Scotland	Falkirk	4,514	36	93	258	175	561	12.4%
Scotland	Fife	17,287	243	393	424	612	1,673	9.7%
Scotland	Glasgow	2,169	1	4	7	0	12	0.6%
Scotland	Highland	426,434	6,790	17,007	26,337	22,561	72,695	17.0%
Scotland	Inverclyde	4,357	22	169	206	78	474	10.9%
Scotland	Midlothian	5,858	220	75	121	84	500	8.5%
Scotland	Aberdeenshire	150,755	2,715	5,543	5,024	4,717	17,999	11.9%
Scotland	Moray	81,526	1,328	5,098	5,733	3,859	16,017	19.6%
Scotland	North Ayrshire	29,800	586	660	1,156	828	3,230	10.8%
Scotland	North Lanarkshire	6,596	121	413	386	432	1,352	20.5%
Scotland	Orkney Islands	7,058	0	0	0	0	0	0.0%
Scotland	Perthshire and Kinross	116,640	1,782	4,453	4,736	5,144	16,115	13.8%
Scotland	Renfrewshire	7,487	28	48	128	106	310	4.1%
Scotland	Scottish Borders	103,410	4,813	6,647	8,338	8,568	28,365	27.4%
Scotland	Shetland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0%
Scotland	South Ayrshire	44,355	1,144	3,379	2,776	2,183	9,483	21.4%
Scotland	South Lanarkshire	34,417	996	2,868	2,707	2,483	9,054	26.3%
Scotland	Angus	35,659	946	1,766	1,028	1,079	4,819	13.5%
Scotland	Stirling	52,279	1,403	2,797	2,808	2,733	9,741	18.6%
Scotland	West Dunbartonshire	5,106	8	160	158	444	770	15.1%
Scotland	West Lothian	7,730	134	535	561	546	1,776	23.0%
Scotland	Argyll and Bute	203,720	4,299	4,435	20,437	15,017	44,186	21.7%
Scotland	Clackmannanshire	2,286	23	80	86	133	323	14.1%
Scotland	Dumfries and Galloway	175,722	8,954	16,096	15,909	17,318	58,277	33.2%
Scotland	Dundee	668	4	4	1	1	10	1.5%
Scotland	East Ayrshire	34,912	647	2,147	2,279	2,371	7,445	21.3%
Scotland	East Dunbartonshire	2,813	8	65	149	81	303	10.8%
Wales	Anglesey	5,494	15	54	6	66	141	2.6%
Wales	Flintshire	5,496	53	48	55	43	200	3.6%
Wales	Gwynedd	50,917	2,245	2,946	1,839	2,239	9,269	18.2%
Wales	Merthyr Tydfil	3,020	103	155	225	48	531	17.6%
Wales	Monmouthshire	15,605	98	156	181	322	757	4.9%
Wales	Neath Port Talbot	13,402	741	720	1,328	704	3,492	26.1%
Wales	Newport	2,176	8	29	42	101	180	8.3%
Wales	Pembrokeshire	24,371	273	377	161	96	907	3.7%
Wales	Powys	100,330	3,670	4,396	3,852	4,160	16,078	16.0%
Wales	Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	7,379	412	403	272	287	1,373	18.6%
Wales	Swansea	4,421	37	59	9	17	122	2.8%
Wales	Blaenau Gwent	1,287	51	49	8	54	162	12.6%
Wales	Torfaen	4,049	91	64	76	269	501	12.4%
Wales	Vale of Glamorgan	2,530	3	4	9	12	28	1.1%
Wales	Wrexham	10,067	485	695	170	148	1,497	14.9%
Wales	Bridgend	4,422	229	260	207	72	767	17.3%
Wales	Caerphilly	4,414	88	95	103	141	427	9.7%
Wales	Cardiff	1,794	4	4	1	3	12	0.7%
Wales	Carmarthenshire	46,167	758	1,304	1,083	1,601	4,746	10.3%
Wales	Ceredigion	38,433	1,745	2,277	1,200	1,441	6,663	17.3%
Wales	Conwy	20,125	703	768	477	819	2,767	13.7%
England	Barnsley	5,817	47	61	49	3	160	2.8%

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2019 forest data for United Kingdom | Archived forest data for United Kingdom | Forest data for United Kingdom

Data Source: Tree cover loss: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA via Global Forest Watch. Administrative boundaries: Global Administrative Areas database (GADM), version 3.6.

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