Global Increase in the Consumption of Lignocellulosic Biomass as Energy Source: Necessity for Sustained Optimisation of Agroforestry Technologies

Table 5

Comparison between the world and developing countries’ 2004 total production, trade, and consumption of wood fuel.

Region		Total wood fuel volume
		(1000 m^3)
	Production	Imports	Exports	Consumption
Africa	546062	1	4	546059
Asia	774647	317	11	774953
Latin America and the Caribbean	236602	4	1	236605
Developing Countries’ total	1557311	322	16	1557617
World’s total	1766925	3221	3911	1766278
% of World’s total	88.14	10	0.41	88.19

Source: adapted from FAO [8].