Between 1988 and 1994 U.S. the number of Christmas trees harvested in the U.S. was about 34–36 million per year. In 2002, in the United States, 21,904 Christmas tree farms covered 447,000 acres (1,810 km 2) of cropland and accounted for 20.8 million Christmas trees cut. read more
The European demand for live trees reaches about 50 million per year, compared with the demand for about 35 million of the trees in the United States. Denmark is a major producer of live Christmas trees, about 90 percent are exported to other European nations, such as Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria. read more