The least forested region, West Asia has only 0.1 per cent of the world's forest and only 1 per cent of its land area is forested

Note: dark green represents closed forest, more than 40 per cent covered with trees more than 5 metres high; mid-green represents open (10-40 per cent coverage) and fragmented forest; light green represents other woodland, shrubland and bushland

Source: FAO 2001a