Forests are unevenly distributed: the ten most forest-rich countries account for two-thirds of the world’s forest area. Forests are increasingly protected, the area of protected forests has increased by 94 million ha since 1990, and two-thirds of this increase has happened since 2000. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study has indicated that the aggregate loss of biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits associated with the global loss of forests is between USD 2 trillion and USD 5 trillion per year. For countries in which longer-term trends are available, intensity of forest resource use does not generally show an increase and has even decreased in most countries since the 1950s.