Poverty and agricultural practices (crude farm and other land use practices) are identified as the major factors that lead to deforestation.
China is the number one country in the world which has since 1990 till date recorded the highest net conversion in forest area.
Data Analyzed from the Food and Agricultural Organization, FAO, indicates the country over a 30 year period, depleted about 800,000sq meters over a 30 year period.
India, the United States and Russia are the second, third and fourth countries among the top 50 countries with the highest annual net forest conversion rate over the period.
The United Nations FAO publishes forest area and forest change data as the annual average on 10- or 5-year timescales with the latest published in 2020
