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Table 4.4: Average area of forest annually affected by diseases 1998–2002
Region/subregion	Reporting countries			Area of forest affected by diseases
	No. of countries	Forest area (1 000 ha)	% of total forest area	1 000 ha	%
	No. of countries	Forest area (1 000 ha)	% of total forest area	1 000 ha	%	1 hectare (ha) = 10 000 square meters (m²) = 0.01 square kilometres (km²)
Eastern and Southern Africa	2	48	0.0	0	0.0
Northern Africa	2	2 203	1.6	130	5.9
Western and Central Africa	1	461	0.2	100	21.6
Total Africa	5	2 712	0.4	229	8.5
East Asia	2	201 877	89.5	883	0.4
South and Southeast Asia	8	183 398	61.7	8 471	4.6
Western and Central Asia	8	8 701	20.0	31	0.4
Total Asia	18	393 976	69.5	9 386	2.4
Total Europe	24	936 300	93.8	3 135	0.3
Caribbean	1	341	6.0	0	0.0
Central America	2	9 747	40.9	33	0.3
North America	2	367 834	54.3	17 382	4.7
North and Central America	5	377 922	53.4	17 415	4.6
Total Oceania	1	18	0.0	0	0.0
Total South America	4	621 932	66.0	830	0.1
World	57	2 332 860	57.2	30 995	1.3

Source: WHO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005,
Progress towards sustainable forest management
Chapter 4 Forest Health and Vitality. p.69

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