An analysis of the forested land in different continents This chart depicts the forest extension (in millions of hectares) in distinct continents in the years of 1990, 2000 and 2005. We can see that North America and Oceania remained pretty much the same from 1990 to 2005. On the other hand, South America and Africa suffered a substantial decrease in the forested area in the same period. The good news is that Asia and Europe showed a slight but increase in the overall forested land in this period. Asia, for example, suffered a decrease from 576 to 570 millions of hectares from 1990 to 2000 but suddenly showed an increase from 570 to 584 in 2005, which is good considering that the increase was enough to overcome the inicial value in 1990. On the opposite, South America sufferend a big loss of about 64 millions of hectares from 1990 to 2005. To conclude, this table summarizes the total amount of forests that were lost or thatincreased in the years of 1990, 2000 and 2005 in different continents.