The Amazon at a Glance

• Basin area 7 million sq km (2.7 million sq mi)
• 1/4 th of the world’s species
• 20% of world’s flow of freshwater
• 7 trillion tons of water evaporated each year
• Deforestation in 2002 (Brazil): 25,000 km²
• Average Deforestation (Brazil): 18,000 km² since 1990
• % Deforested: 16 (650,000 km²)
• Population: Approximately 30 million
• Indigenous Population: 20 million
• Over 200 indigenous languages
• 70 billion tons of carbon stored in biomass
• Countries with areas inside the Amazon ecosystem:

Brazil; Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana and Surinam.