How many trees are there on earth?

We finally know how many trees there are in the world. How many trees are there on planet Earth? According to a new study, the answer is somewhere around 3.04 trillion. And while that may seem like a lot, scientists say that before humans began clearing forests, the Earth was home to nearly twice as many trees. read more

“There are APPROXIMATELY 3.04 TRILLION TREES IN THE WORLD. That’s a huge number that looks even more impressive when it’s written out: 3,040,000,000,000. But what’s more astonishing is that we didn’t have this estimate until recently. read more

One estimate put the number at around 400 billion trees worldwide based on satellite images. Another, based on ground-truthed measurements, suggested there were 390 billion trees in the Amazon basin alone. And thus, Crowther’s mission was set. He knew there was a method to get better numbers, and so he did. read more

Another 24.2% of trees can be found in the boreal and tundra zones of Canada, Russia and northern China, where hearty coniferous trees grow in the densest forests on Earth, and 21.8% are in more temperate parts of the world, including the United States and Europe. read more