Rank Territory Value11 Sierra Leone 9.212 Nicaragua 7.713 Ghana 7.314 Rwanda 7.215 Guinea 6.916 Thailand 6.617 Liberia 6.518 Niger 6.524 Sri Lanka 5.731 South Africa 5.6

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forest depletion in US$ per person, per year, 2003*

Rank Territory Value1 Guatemala 17.62 Uganda 14.63 Burundi 12.74 Costa Rica 12.65 El Salvador 12.06 Ethiopia 11.77 Uruguay 11.48 Lesotho 10.49 Togo 10.310 Nepal 10.1

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www.worldmapper.org

Produced by the SASI group (Sheffield) and Mark Newman (Michigan)

“A lot of the illegal timber is bought by China and Japan, then converted to products that are sold in Europe,North America, Australia and New Zealand. It’s ... destroying livelihoods – destroying people.”

This map shows forest depletion,measured as the financial value of theuntreated wood extracted which is notreplaced by natural growth. This mapshows the value of wood that is notsustainably harvested at territory level.

The highest unsustainable harvestingis in India, Ethiopia, Pakistan andBangladesh. Almost half (46%) is inIndia; this is the same as the combinedtotal of the 25 territories with thenext highest forest depletion. Thepopulation of India is almost as largeas the combined population of those25 other territories. Per person forestdepletion in India ranks 23rd of allterritories with data reported.

• Data are from the World Bank’s 2005 WorldDevelopment Indicators.

• *Those territories for which the source lackeddata so estimates are made, are not in this table.

• See website for further information.

Territory size shows the proportion of all annual forestdepletion that occurred there. Forest depletion is theloss of potential future income from roundwood atcurrent prices due to current tree felling not offset bynatural growth.

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