| Your source is bad, I'm afraid. Try this one http://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation_forest.html which also has 2005 data.
Here the top 25, in order, are: Brazil, DRC, Indonesia, Peru, India, Mexico, Colombia, Angola, Bolivia, Venezuela, Zambia, Tanzania, Myanmar, Papua, CAR, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Laos, Guyana, Suriname, Thailand, Vietnam.
Belize, which somehow made your original list, is actually 51st.
Your original source has been discredited:
FAO deforestation stats are bogus and inaccurate says UK-based group
Rainforest Foundation news release, http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1114-bogus.html
November 14, 2005
including such nuggets as:
the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10% actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests;
* areas of land that presently have no trees on them at all, but that are 'expected' to regenerate, are also counted as forests;
* the UN includes in its data for existing areas of forest those that are covered by industrial tree plantations, which are actually lacking some of the key functions of true forests |
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