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Numbers about Ethiopia's forest cover vary greatly, I see 4% in the year 2000 mentioned on Wikipedia, I see 14% in 2018 mentioned in this Bloomberg article and

by Tepix 7y ago

Numbers about Ethiopia's forest cover vary greatly, I see 4% in the year 2000 mentioned on Wikipedia, I see 14% in 2018 mentioned in this Bloomberg article and I see some numbers in between in a 2015 paper by Abraha Hatsey http://wiki.awf.forst.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/images/e/e9/6_3_hatsey.pdf http://wiki.awf.forst.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/images/e/e9/6_3... I wonder why the numbers are varying so wildly.

saalweachter 7y ago
If it was 4% I'm 2000, 14% in 2018, and in between in between, that doesn't suggest anything?
netllama 7y ago
The numbers vary so much because they're (nearly) all fabricated by whomever was interviewed. The Ethiopian government is notoriously corrupt. Lots of talking heads who contribute little. They're just trying to one up each other with fabricated statistics.