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The table summarises the landmass in millions of hectares that are covered with forests in various continents of the world from 1990 to 2005. It can be seen that the area of vegetation coverage was increased in Asia and Europe in 2005 compared to 1990, the reverse is true for the African, North American, Oceania, and South American continents. There were 576
million
hectares of land covered with forests in Asia in 1990 where it experienced a decrease to 570
million
hectares in 2000. Within the
next
five years, Asian
forest
cover had a dramatic increase of 14
million
hectares. European continent had a healthy growth of
forest
cover from 989
million
hectares in 1990 to 998 and 1001
million
hectares in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Africa saw a significant downfall of
forest
area from 749 to 691
million
hectares between 1990 to 2005 where it had 709
million
hectares of
forest
cover in 2000. It can be seen that South America
also
had noticeable deforestation which brought its forested land from 946 to 904 and 882
million
hectares from 1990, 2000, and 2005 respectively. Oceania region does not show a significant decrease compared to other regions that were discussed. It only decreased by 1
million
hectares per every 5 years where it started from 199
million
in the year 1990. It can be seen that North America had a change in its
forest
cover from 708
million
hectares in 1990 to 705
million
hectares in the year 2000 and was maintained at a constant level up to the year 2005.
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