Dataset
Above-ground forest biomass
owid.above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare
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About
Above-ground biomass in forest (tonnes per hectare).
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – processed by Our World in Data. “Above-ground biomass in forest (tonnes per hectare)” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “FAO. Global Forest Resources Assessment” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-31
- Units
- tonnes per hectare
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/above-ground-biomass-in-forest-per-hectare
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| _15_2_1__ag_lnd_frstbiopha | number | Above-ground biomass in forest (tonnes per hectare) (tonnes per hectare) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |