environmental2023

Forest area (% of land area)

Name: Forest area (% of land area)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, environment-water-forests-biodiversity, forest, area, land

Compare forest area (% of land area) across 213 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2023.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•213 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

31.7%

Median: 31.1%

Countries Covered

213

with available data

Highest

Suriname

94.4%

Lowest

Qatar

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1Suriname94.4%

2Micronesia, Federated States of92.2%

3Gabon91.2%

4Palau90.5%

5Solomon Islands90.1%

By Region

South America37.8%(7 countries)

North America34.9%(4 countries)

Other34.0%(134 countries)

Europe33.5%(32 countries)

Oceania27.6%(2 countries)

Key Findings

•213 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Suriname has the highest published value (94.4476 %).
•Gibraltar has the lowest published value (0 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (94.4%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 31.7%)

South America (7)

North America (4)

Other (134)

Europe (32)

Oceania (2)

Asia (25)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.

Values use one fixed 2023 reference year from World Development Indicators series AG.LND.FRST.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Suriname	94.4%
2	Micronesia, Federated States of	92.2%
3	Gabon	91.2%
4	Palau	90.5%
5	Solomon Islands	90.1%
6	Guyana	87.1%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.4%
8	American Samoa	85.2%
9	Papua New Guinea	79.0%
10	Liberia	78.1%
11	Finland	73.7%
12	Seychelles	73.3%
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.2%
14	Brunei Darussalam	72.1%
15	Bhutan	71.6%
16	Lao People's Democratic Republic	71.5%
17	Guinea-Bissau	69.5%
18	Sweden	68.7%
19	Japan	68.4%
20	Republic of the Congo	64.1%
21	South Korea	64.1%
22	Dominica	63.8%
23	Fiji	63.5%
24	Timor-Leste	61.7%
25	Montenegro	61.5%
26	Slovenia	61.2%
27	Costa Rica	60.4%
28	Zambia	59.5%
29	Brazil	59.0%
30	Virgin Islands, U.S.	58.2%
31	Malaysia	57.7%
32	Samoa	57.6%
33	Estonia	57.1%
34	Panama	56.3%
35	Honduras	56.3%
36	Jamaica	56.2%
37	Puerto Rico	56.1%
38	Peru	56.1%
39	Latvia	55.0%
40	Belize	54.5%
41	Democratic Republic of the Congo	54.2%
42	Northern Mariana Islands	53.0%
43	Colombia	52.8%
44	Cayman Islands	52.5%
45	Venezuela	52.2%
46	Marshall Islands	52.2%
47	Sao Tome and Principe	52.1%
48	Angola	52.1%
49	Grenada	52.1%
50	Guam	51.9%
51	Bahamas	50.9%
52	United Republic of Tanzania	50.1%
53	Russian Federation	49.8%
54	North Korea	49.6%
55	Ecuador	49.5%
56	Indonesia	47.7%
57	Vietnam	47.4%
58	Austria	47.2%
59	Bolivia	46.3%
60	New Caledonia	45.8%
61	Mozambique	45.8%
62	Dominican Republic	45.0%
63	Zimbabwe	44.7%
64	Trinidad and Tobago	44.2%
65	Belarus	43.4%
66	Cambodia	43.1%
67	French Polynesia	43.1%
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.7%
69	Cameroon	42.7%
70	Myanmar	42.4%
71	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.3%
72	Liechtenstein	41.9%
73	Nepal	41.6%
74	Senegal	41.3%
75	Georgia	40.6%
76	Slovakia	40.1%
77	The Republic of North Macedonia	39.7%
78	Canada	39.5%
79	Thailand	38.7%
80	Paraguay	38.5%
81	New Zealand	37.8%
82	Spain	37.2%
83	Vanuatu	36.3%
84	Bulgaria	36.2%
85	Portugal	36.2%
86	Central African Republic	35.7%
87	Lithuania	35.2%
88	Ghana	35.2%
89	Croatia	34.8%
90	Czech Republic	34.8%
91	Luxembourg	34.5%
92	Sierra Leone	34.3%
93	Saint Lucia	34.0%
94	Andorra	34.0%
95	Sri Lanka	34.0%
96	United States of America	33.9%
97	Mexico	33.6%
98	Norway	33.5%
99	Tuvalu	33.3%
100	Italy	32.9%
101	Germany	32.7%
102	Guatemala	32.6%
103	France	32.5%
104	Serbia	32.4%
105	Switzerland	32.4%
106	Cuba	31.2%
107	Poland	31.1%
108	Greece	30.3%
109	Romania	30.1%
110	Türkiye	29.5%
111	Eswatini	29.1%
112	Albania	28.8%
113	El Salvador	27.5%
114	Benin	26.5%
115	Botswana	26.3%
116	Nicaragua	25.8%
117	Chile	25.0%
118	Saint Martin (French part)	24.8%
119	Guinea	24.7%
120	India	24.5%
121	Philippines	24.5%
122	Virgin Islands, British	24.1%
123	People's Republic of China	24.0%
124	Nigeria	23.2%
125	Belgium	22.6%
126	Hungary	22.4%
127	Malawi	22.4%
128	Republic of The Gambia	22.3%
129	Burkina Faso	22.2%
130	Togo	22.1%
131	Madagascar	21.3%
132	Singapore	20.9%
133	Mauritius	19.5%
134	Cyprus	18.7%
135	Bermuda	18.5%
136	Antigua and Barbuda	18.0%
137	Australia	17.4%
138	Comoros	17.0%
139	Ukraine	16.8%
140	San Marino	16.7%
141	Denmark	15.8%
142	Ethiopia	14.9%
143	Barbados	14.7%
144	Bangladesh	14.5%
145	Lebanon	14.2%
146	Azerbaijan	14.1%
147	South Africa	14.0%
148	United Kingdom	13.3%
149	Morocco	12.9%
150	Tonga	12.4%
151	Haiti	12.3%
152	Uruguay	12.0%
153	Moldova, Republic of	11.7%
154	Armenia	11.6%
155	Cape Verde	11.6%
156	Ireland	11.5%
157	South Sudan	11.3%
158	Rwanda	11.3%
159	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.1%
160	Netherlands	11.1%
161	Uganda	11.0%
162	Mali	10.9%
163	Burundi	10.9%
164	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.9%
165	Argentina	10.3%
166	Sudan	9.6%
167	Somalia	9.2%
168	Mongolia	9.1%
169	Turkmenistan	8.8%
170	Eritrea	8.6%
171	Uzbekistan	8.5%
172	Cote d'Ivoire	7.9%
173	Namibia	7.8%
174	Kyrgyzstan	7.1%
175	Islamic Republic of Iran	6.6%
176	Israel	6.5%
177	Kenya	6.2%
178	Isle of Man	6.1%
179	Pakistan	4.7%
180	Tunisia	4.6%
181	United Arab Emirates	4.5%
182	Chad	3.2%
183	Tajikistan	3.1%
184	Syrian Arab Republic	2.8%
185	Maldives	2.8%
186	Aruba	2.3%
187	Iraq	1.9%
188	Afghanistan	1.9%
189	State of Palestine	1.7%
190	Kiribati	1.5%
191	Malta	1.4%
192	Kazakhstan	1.3%
193	Lesotho	1.1%
194	Jordan	1.1%
195	Yemen	1.0%
196	Bahrain	1.0%
197	Algeria	0.8%
198	Niger	0.8%
199	Iceland	0.5%
200	Saudi Arabia	0.5%
201	Kuwait	0.4%
202	Mauritania	0.3%
203	Djibouti	0.3%
204	Curaçao	0.2%
205	Libya	0.1%
206	Faroe Islands	0.1%
207	Egypt	0.0%
208	Oman	0.0%
209	Greenland	0.0%
210	Gibraltar	0.0%
211	Monaco	0.0%
212	Nauru	0.0%
213	Qatar	0.0%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #environment-water-forests-biodiversity #forest #area #land

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2023).

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