Production (metric tonnes) 2008 | Global tobacco leaf production (%) 2008 | Land devoted to tobacco production (hectares) 2008 | Annual costs of tobacco-related deforestation* (US$ millions) | Tobacco-related deforestation rates107 (per year) | |
Brazil | 850 000 | 12 | 431 000 | 17.2 | NA |
India | 520 000 | 8 | 370 000 | 14.8 | NA |
Argentina | 170 000 | 2 | 92 000 | 3.6 | 4 |
Indonesia | 170 000 | 2 | 199 000 | 7.9 | NA |
Malawi | 160 000 | 2 | 162 000 | 6.4 | 27 |
Pakistan | 108 000 | 2 | 51 000 | 2.0 | 27 |
Turkey | 100 000 | 1 | 121 000 | 4.8 | NA |
Zimbabwe | 79 000 | 1 | 52 000 | 2.0 | 27 |
Thailand | 70 000 | 1 | 40 000 | 1.6 | 1 |
Mozambique | 64 000 | 1 | 33 000 | 1.3 | NA |
Tanzania | 51 000 | 1 | 37 000 | 1.4 | 4 |
Zambia | 48 000 | 1 | 45 000 | 1.8 | 1 |
Total selected | 2 390 000 | 34 | 1 632 000 | 64.8 | NA |
Total world | 6 881 000 | 100 | 4 000 0009 | 160.0 | NA |
↵* Based on an estimated $40/hectare in non-timber value per hectare.108 The figure of $40 of land depleted of trees ‘comes from adding the value of various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide’.109 The figure does not specifically refer to the economic value of the trees themselves. This cost estimate does not include the value of lost recreation, bioprospecting, watershed protection or carbon sequestration.108
NA, not available.