FAO says Cambodia has ASEAN's highest contribution of forestry to GDP

25 June 2014

Cambodia has Southeast Asia's highest contribution of forestry to gross domestic product. In its annual State of the World's Forests report released Monday, the FAO said the forestry sector accounted for 3.2 % of Cambodia's GDP, a country's total production of goods and services adjusted for net foreign income.

That compares with around 2 % for Laos and Malaysia, 1.7 % for Indonesia and Vietnam, 0.9 % for Thailand and 0.5 % or less for Brunei, Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore. In terms of the annual value of forestry production, however, Cambodia ranked sixth among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Gross value added from Cambodia's forest sector is about $390 million a year comprising $338 million from roundwood production, $43 million from pulp and paper along with $10 million from wood processing.

The FAO said 83.6 percent of Cambodians used wood fuel to cook, by far the highest rate in ASEAN after Myanmar where 88.4% of the population cook with such fuel. Wood, however, accounted for only 45.2% of Cambodia's total primary energy supply. That compared with 100 % for Laos and 80 % for Myanmar.

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