World Energy Council [16] reports that wood and other biomass supplied about 47% of
the national energy consumption in 1993–1994. Share of biomass in all renewable energy
supplies was 83%. The consumption of wood and other biomass fuels was still increasing
in absolute terms, even when their percent share in national energy consumption was
decreasing. As per WEC Survey of Energy Resources 2001 [17], Pakistan has a very small
proportion of its total land area under forest—only some 25,000 km2
, or 3.2% of the total.
In 1998, 39% of its inland primary energy supply was furnished by biomass fuels, of which
more than one-third consisted of fuelwood. FAO estimates point to a 1999 level of
fuelwood production of around 24 million tonnes.