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China Quietly Added a France-and-a-Half of Forest
+63 million ha of forest in China since 1990 (World Bank/FAO)
World Bank records (based on FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment) show China's forest area expanding every single year from 1990 through 2021, from roughly 1.57 million km² to 2.20 million km² — a net gain of about 63 million hectares. Our World in Data documents the same pattern, noting that major economies such as China and India have recently regained forests even as global net losses continue. The planet still loses far too much forest, but entire regions are quietly getting greener.
+63 million hectares: China's net forest gain between 1990 and 2020 — an area larger than France — even as tropical forests kept falling elsewhere.