Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Total Population | 90,728,900 in 2014 | |
Rural Population | 60,693,500 in 2014 | 67% of total population |
Total country area | 33,121,000 ha | |
Total land area (excluding inland water bodies) | 33,058,600 ha | |
Total forest land | 13,401,592 in 2014 | 40.5% of total land area |
Forest cover | 13,796,506 ha in 2014 | 41.7% of total land area |
Production Forests | 6,751,923 ha in 2014 | 50% of total forest land |
Protection forest | 4,564,537 ha in 2014 | 34% of total forest land |
Special use forests | 2,085,132 in 2014 | 16% of total forest land |
Forest cover change | +102,108 ha (+0.76%) per year between 2010 and 2014 | |
Carbon stocks | 1,676 mmt | |
Forest cover change | +149, 727 ha (+1.19%) per year 2006-2011 (VNFOREST 2013) | |
Community managed forests | 4,256,375 ha in 2015
Communities: 1,110,408 ha
Households: 3,145,967 ha | |
Community forestry policies and programmes | Community Forest Management | |
Climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and programmes | National Target Programme on Climate Change (2008, 2012)
National Climate Change Strategy (2011)
National Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2011–2020)
National Green Growth Strategy (2012)
Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (2013)
Law on Environment (2014)
National Strategy on Disaster Prevention, Response & Mitigation to 2020
Action Plan Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation for Climate Change in Agriculture and Rural Development (2008–2020)
National REDD Programme |
Sources: FAO 2016j; VNFOREST, 2015; MARD Decision on Forest Area 3158 QD-BNN-TCLN, General Statistics Office of Vietnam.