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Natural and semi-natural land cover — Natural capital

Compare natural and semi-natural land cover — natural capital across 47 countries or territories using one fixed 2022 OECD reference slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)•47 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
59.3Percentage of land area
Median: 62.2Percentage of land area
Countries Covered
47
with available data
Highest
New Zealand
89.0Percentage of land area
Lowest
Israel
6.9Percentage of land area
Top 5 Countries
1New Zealand89.0Percentage of land area
2Peru87.7Percentage of land area
3Australia87.2Percentage of land area
4Ireland87.1Percentage of land area
5Colombia86.0Percentage of land area
By Region
Oceania88.1Percentage of land area(2 countries)
Africa84.0Percentage of land area(1 countries)
North America77.1Percentage of land area(3 countries)
South America77.0Percentage of land area(5 countries)
Other55.8Percentage of land area(2 countries)
Key Findings
  • •47 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of land area observation in the fixed 2022 slice.
  • •New Zealand has the highest published value (88.9958 Percentage of land area).
  • •Israel has the lowest published value (6.92914 Percentage of land area).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (6.9Percentage of land area)High (89.0Percentage of land area)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 59.3Percentage of land area)

Oceania (2)
Africa (1)
North America (3)
South America (5)
Other (2)
Europe (29)
Asia (5)

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

Future well-being: Natural and semi-natural land cover — Natural capital. Unit: Percentage of land area. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2022 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Future well-being: Natural and semi-natural land cover — Natural capital. Unit: Percentage of land area. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

Full Data

Rank ↑Country ↕Value ↕
1New Zealand89.0Percentage of land area
2Peru87.7Percentage of land area
3Australia87.2Percentage of land area
4Ireland87.1Percentage of land area
5Colombia86.0Percentage of land area
6Norway84.9Percentage of land area
7South Africa84.0Percentage of land area
8Sweden81.1Percentage of land area
9Mexico80.5Percentage of land area
10Finland80.5Percentage of land area
11Canada77.5Percentage of land area
12United States of America73.4Percentage of land area
13Brazil73.4Percentage of land area
14Costa Rica71.2Percentage of land area
15Austria70.4Percentage of land area
16Argentina69.6Percentage of land area
17Slovenia69.4Percentage of land area
18Estonia68.5Percentage of land area
19Chile68.4Percentage of land area
20Switzerland68.2Percentage of land area
21Latvia67.6Percentage of land area
22Japan66.4Percentage of land area
23Iceland66.2Percentage of land area
24United Kingdom62.2Percentage of land area
25Indonesia61.5Percentage of land area
26Luxembourg58.4Percentage of land area
27Croatia53.4Percentage of land area
28Greece53.1Percentage of land area
29France52.2Percentage of land area
30Slovakia51.8Percentage of land area
31South Korea49.5Percentage of land area
32Germany46.3Percentage of land area
33Czech Republic45.2Percentage of land area
34Portugal44.9Percentage of land area
35Spain44.3Percentage of land area
36Netherlands43.8Percentage of land area
37Romania41.2Percentage of land area
38Bulgaria40.8Percentage of land area
39Lithuania40.6Percentage of land area
40Türkiye40.3Percentage of land area
41Italy38.7Percentage of land area
42Poland37.9Percentage of land area
43Belgium37.6Percentage of land area
44Thailand30.6Percentage of land area
45Hungary26.3Percentage of land area
46Denmark21.0Percentage of land area
47Israel6.9Percentage of land area
Showing 47 of 47 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2022).

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