How many trees are there on Earth?
World brutal Data from 2015
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The answer
3,040,000,000,000 trees
Roughly 3T.
A 2015 study combining satellite data with 400,000 ground plots put the global tree count at about 3.04 trillion, roughly 380 trees per person. That was eight times higher than the previous estimate. The same study concluded human activity has roughly halved the number since the dawn of agriculture.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Crowther et al., Nature |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2015 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | trees |
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