{"id": 145182, "name": "Forest area", "unit": "", "description": "A forest is defined as Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly\nunder agricultural or urban land use. \n\nForest is determined both by the presence of trees and the absence of other predominant land uses. The trees\nshould be able to reach a minimum height of 5 meters in situ. ", "createdAt": "2020-10-20T09:08:41.000Z", "updatedAt": "2023-06-15T05:05:42.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "", "datasetId": 5201, "columnOrder": 0, "dataPath": "https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/145182.data.json", "metadataPath": "https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/145182.metadata.json", "datasetName": "Forest land, deforestation and change (FAO, 2020)", "type": "float", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Forest area", "unit": "hectares", "shortUnit": "ha", "includeInTable": true, "conversionFactor": 1000, "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "source": {"id": 17931, "name": "UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Forest Resources Assessment.", "dataPublishedBy": "UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Forest Resources Assessment 2020.", "dataPublisherSource": "", "link": "https://fra-data.fao.org/", "retrievedDate": "20th October 2020", "additionalInfo": "Raw data for forest area, deforestation, afforestation and expansion is sourced from the UN FAO Forest Resources Assessment.\n\nOur World in Data have calculated several metrics based on this raw data including:\n\u2013 Net change in forest area (afforestation minus deforestation)\n\u2013 Net conversion rate (net change as a percentage of forest area)\n\u2013 Each country's share of global forest area, deforestation, afforestation, and net change in forests\n\u2013 Each country's share of regional forest area, deforestation, afforestation, and net change in forests\n\nThe UN FAO publish forest area and forest change data as the annual average on 10- or 5-year timescales. Therefore the following year allocation applies:\n\u2013 1990: the annual average over the period from 1990 to 2000.\n\u2013 2000: the annual average over the period from 2000 to 2010.\n\u2013 2010: the annual average over the period from 2010 to 2015.\n\u2013 2015: the annual average over the period from 2015 to 2020.\n\nData on forest cover by country pre-1990 is sourced from a variety sources which are documented here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nYpao4e8Ai-P86jIUZ3r7X6-5MjZ7ZbG7TJQSO729Bg/edit?usp=sharing"}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 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