Global Forest Cover and Changes: Time-period- and Country-wise Extent of Area under Forest Expansion, Deforestation, and Net Change

The dataset contains time-period- and country-wise global data on forest expansion, including afforestation and natural expansion, deforestation, and net change Note: The UN defines types of forest expansion and other terms as follows: Forest expansion: Expansion of forest on land that, until then, was under a different land use, implies a transformation of land use from non-forest to forest. Afforestation: Establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was under a different land use, implies a transformation of land use form non-forest to forest. Natural Expansion of Forest: Expansion of forest through natural succession on land that, until then, was under a different land use, implies a transformation of land use form non-forest to forest (e.g. forest succession on land previously used for agriculture). Deforestation: The conversion of forest to other land use independently whether human-induced or not.