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The world's forests continue to shrink over time. Between 1990 and 2020, while the rate of deforestation decreased, millions of hectares of forest were lost annually.
From 1990 to 2000, approximately 7.84 million hectares of forest were lost each year. This number decreased in the following two decades. Between 2000 and 2010, 5.17 million hectares of forest were lost annually. In the subsequent decade, the average annual loss was 4.74 million hectares.
The largest loss of forest area occurred in Africa between 2010 and 2020, reaching 3.94 million hectares per year, followed by South America with a loss of 2.6 million hectares annually.
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