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Forest area by Country

Name: Forest Area (% of Land Area) by country
Creator: World Bank
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Forest Area (% of Land Area) (% of land area) for 214 countries, with the latest available year and the earliest year on record.

What this is. Land under naturally regenerated or planted stands of trees of at least five meters in situ, as a share of total land area.

Ranking — latest available year

Countries are sorted by their most recent reported value. The first-year column shows the earliest year for which the World Bank publishes a figure for that country, which is not the same year for every country.

#	Country	% of land area	First year	Change
1	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	92.07%	90.87%	+1.3%
2	Suriname	91.54%	92.62%	-1.2%
3	Gabon	91.44%	92.27%	-0.9%
4	Palau	90.83%	83.24%	+9.1%
5	Solomon Islands	89.84%	90.74%	-1.0%
6	Guyana	87.07%	94.5%	-7.9%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.09%	96.23%	-10.5%
8	American Samoa	79.65%	90.35%	-11.8%
9	Dominica	76.42%	78.44%	-2.6%
10	Papua New Guinea	75.15%	76.44%	-1.7%
11	Guinea-Bissau	74.82%	80.28%	-6.8%
12	Vanuatu	74.64%	81.29%	-8.2%
13	Finland	74.15%	71.82%	+3.3%
14	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.42%	73.13%	+0.4%
15	Central African Republic	72.46%	74.54%	-2.8%
16	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	78.37%	-8.0%
17	Timor-Leste	70.96%	74.01%	-4.1%
18	Bhutan	70.35%	53.65%	+31.1%
19	Sweden	68.59%	68.89%	-0.4%
20	Japan	68.34%	68.43%	-0.1%
21	Liberia	66.1%	83.15%	-20.5%
22	British Virgin Islands	66.03%	66.67%	-1.0%
23	Korea, Rep.	64.37%	67.91%	-5.2%
24	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	64.09%	61.92%	+3.5%
25	Congo, Rep.	63.95%	65.17%	-1.9%
26	Panama	62.25%	66.67%	-6.6%
27	Slovenia	61.77%	59.43%	+3.9%
28	Fiji	61.74%	51.43%	+20.0%
29	Congo, Dem. Rep.	61.52%	70.81%	-13.1%
30	Montenegro	61.49%	55.51%	+10.8%
31	Zambia	60.5%	63.78%	-5.1%
32	Costa Rica	59.06%	54.03%	+9.3%
33	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	58.94%	58.31%	+1.1%
34	Brazil	58.55%	73.99%	-20.9%
35	Seychelles	58.51%	74.2%	-21.1%
36	Belize	57.98%	69.26%	-16.3%
37	Malaysia	57.66%	62.76%	-8.1%
38	Samoa	57.64%	62.4%	-7.6%
39	Sao Tome and Principe	57.55%	61.53%	-6.5%
40	Estonia	57.25%	52.19%	+9.7%
41	Lao PDR	56.64%	62.39%	-9.2%
42	Jamaica	56.55%	48.13%	+17.5%
43	Latvia	55.61%	51.21%	+8.6%
44	St. Lucia	53.75%	44.36%	+21.2%
45	Colombia	53.71%	58.68%	-8.5%
46	Marshall Islands	53.65%	52.22%	+2.7%
47	Venezuela, RB	53.44%	57.23%	-6.6%
48	Northern Mariana Islands	53.3%	44.17%	+20.7%
49	Cayman Islands	53%	54.71%	-3.1%
50	Honduras	52.83%	68.32%	-22.7%
51	Peru	52.7%	60.19%	-12.4%
52	Guam	52.26%	44.44%	+17.6%
53	Grenada	51.45%	52.06%	-1.2%
54	Angola	51.15%	62.19%	-17.7%
55	Bahamas, The	50.94%	50.94%	0.0%
56	Russian Federation	50.79%	49.53%	+2.5%
57	Indonesia	50.67%	64.22%	-21.1%
58	Bolivia	50.19%	57.02%	-12.0%
59	Puerto Rico (US)	49.75%	34.25%	+45.2%
60	Ecuador	49.69%	52.85%	-6.0%
61	Tanzania	49.63%	65.66%	-24.4%
62	New Caledonia	48.05%	45.47%	+5.7%
63	Austria	47.27%	45.75%	+3.3%
64	Viet Nam	47.12%	28.81%	+63.6%
65	Dominican Republic	46.7%	44.13%	+5.8%
66	Senegal	45.01%	47.75%	-5.7%
67	Georgia	44.62%	43.63%	+2.3%
68	Trinidad and Tobago	44.16%	46.96%	-6.0%
69	Belarus	44.09%	38.82%	+13.6%
70	Nepal	43.6%	40.2%	+8.5%
71	French Polynesia	42.45%	39.46%	+7.6%
72	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.21%	42.78%	-1.3%
73	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.15%	42.31%	-0.4%
74	Canada	41.97%	40.24%	+4.3%
75	Myanmar	41.96%	60.01%	-30.1%
76	Mozambique	41.34%	52.89%	-21.8%
77	North Macedonia	40.81%	36.22%	+12.7%
78	Cameroon	40.74%	47.6%	-14.4%
79	Slovak Republic	40.32%	39.55%	+2.0%
80	Tuvalu	39.62%	34.33%	+15.4%
81	Serbia	39.22%	31.11%	+26.1%
82	Andorra	38.91%	37.64%	+3.4%
83	New Zealand	38.87%	35.59%	+9.2%
84	Thailand	38.73%	39.61%	-2.2%
85	Czechia	38.36%	36.85%	+4.1%
86	Spain	38.23%	27.84%	+37.3%
87	Cambodia	37.63%	62.34%	-39.6%
88	Greece	36.95%	28.77%	+28.4%
89	Liechtenstein	36.81%	32.5%	+13.3%
90	Portugal	36.65%	37.58%	-2.5%
91	Paraguay	36.52%	64.64%	-43.5%
92	Bulgaria	36.35%	30.07%	+20.9%
93	Zimbabwe	35.72%	43.21%	-17.3%
94	Lithuania	35.37%	31.27%	+13.1%
95	Cuba	34.88%	21.53%	+62.0%
96	Croatia	34.75%	33.21%	+4.6%
97	Luxembourg	34.45%	33.68%	+2.3%
98	Sri Lanka	34.36%	37.79%	-9.1%
99	Albania	34.34%	28.79%	+19.3%
100	Mexico	34.15%	36.94%	-7.5%
101	Sierra Leone	34.03%	43.32%	-21.5%
102	United States	33.78%	33.02%	+2.3%
103	Norway	33.25%	33.45%	-0.6%
104	Guatemala	33.12%	45.28%	-26.9%
105	El Salvador	33.01%	35.5%	-7.0%
106	France	32.85%	26.79%	+22.6%
107	Germany	32.84%	32.37%	+1.5%
108	Switzerland	32.02%	29.18%	+9.7%
109	Italy	31.82%	25.81%	+23.3%
110	Poland	31%	29%	+6.9%
111	Ghana	30.86%	25.52%	+20.9%
112	Romania	30.21%	27.78%	+8.8%
113	Turkiye	29.48%	25.71%	+14.7%
114	Benin	28.12%	61.9%	-54.6%
115	Botswana	27.76%	27.75%	+0.0%
116	Rwanda	26.09%	17.71%	+47.4%
117	Nicaragua	25.82%	58.99%	-56.2%
118	Eswatini	25.27%	28.23%	-10.5%
119	Philippines	24.81%	26.09%	-4.9%
120	Chile	24.48%	22.61%	+8.3%
121	India	24.44%	21.5%	+13.6%
122	China	24.02%	16.74%	+43.5%
123	Ethiopia	23.84%	28.32%	-15.8%
124	St. Martin (French part)	23.4%	24.8%	-5.7%
125	Hungary	22.81%	20.18%	+13.0%
126	Togo	22.46%	23.87%	-5.9%
127	Malawi	22%	37.14%	-40.8%
128	Belgium	21.99%	22%	-0.0%
129	Singapore	21.8%	22.13%	-1.5%
130	Gambia, The	21.34%	40.98%	-47.9%
131	Guinea	20.04%	29.31%	-31.6%
132	Mauritius	19.15%	20.23%	-5.4%
133	Nigeria	18.95%	23.68%	-20.0%
134	South Africa	18.79%	16.34%	+15.0%
135	Cyprus	18.6%	17.44%	+6.7%
136	Antigua and Barbuda	17.85%	22.98%	-22.3%
137	Comoros	17.79%	25.34%	-29.8%
138	Australia	17.37%	17.52%	-0.9%
139	Ukraine	17.35%	16.09%	+7.8%
140	Madagascar	17.27%	23.52%	-26.6%
141	Argentina	17.09%	20.46%	-16.5%
142	San Marino	16.34%	16.67%	-2.0%
143	Denmark	16.01%	13.29%	+20.5%
144	Barbados	14.62%	14.65%	-0.2%
145	Azerbaijan	14.56%	11.45%	+27.1%
146	Bermuda	14.44%	14.44%	0.0%
147	Bangladesh	14.4%	15.25%	-5.6%
148	Lebanon	13.8%	13.48%	+2.4%
149	United Kingdom	13.5%	11.48%	+17.5%
150	Haiti	13.45%	13.4%	+0.4%
151	Morocco	12.76%	12.77%	-0.1%
152	Cabo Verde	12.52%	8.31%	+50.6%
153	Maldives	12.48%	12.4%	+0.7%
154	Burkina Faso	12.27%	30.33%	-59.6%
155	Tonga	12.13%	12.13%	0.0%
156	Cote d'Ivoire	12.12%	26.09%	-53.5%
157	Eritrea	11.99%	16.17%	-25.9%
158	Ireland	11.97%	6.7%	+78.7%
159	Uganda	11.95%	22.76%	-47.5%
160	Sudan	11.86%	12.98%	-8.6%
161	Armenia	11.85%	11.74%	+0.9%
162	Uruguay	11.46%	5.02%	+128.1%
163	South Sudan	11.33%	11.31%	+0.2%
164	Moldova	11.26%	10.02%	+12.5%
165	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.09%	11.07%	+0.2%
166	Netherlands	10.96%	10.23%	+7.1%
167	Burundi	10.89%	10.77%	+1.1%
168	Namibia	9.77%	10.65%	-8.3%
169	Mongolia	9.1%	9.27%	-1.9%
170	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	8.82%	8.82%	0.0%
171	Uzbekistan	8.79%	6.19%	+42.0%
172	Mali	8.67%	11.47%	-24.4%
173	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	7.82%	13.2%	-40.8%
174	Israel	6.84%	6.1%	+12.1%
175	Kenya	6.63%	6.57%	+0.8%
176	Iran, Islamic Rep.	6.63%	6.6%	+0.4%
177	Kyrgyz Republic	6.55%	5.97%	+9.6%
178	Isle of Man	6.41%	6.37%	+0.7%
179	Channel Islands	5.15%	4.19%	+22.9%
180	Turkmenistan	4.96%	4.96%	0.0%
181	Bahrain	4.86%	1.99%	+144.9%
182	United Arab Emirates	4.57%	4.43%	+3.0%
183	Tunisia	4.44%	4.15%	+7.1%
184	Pakistan	4.11%	4.49%	-8.4%
185	Tajikistan	3.06%	2.92%	+4.7%
186	Chad	2.97%	5.34%	-44.4%
187	Syrian Arab Republic	2.87%	2.45%	+17.1%
188	Aruba	2.72%	2.72%	0.0%
189	Afghanistan	1.85%	1.85%	0.0%
190	West Bank and Gaza	1.84%	1.51%	+22.1%
191	Iraq	1.61%	1.84%	-12.3%
192	Malta	1.49%	1.09%	+36.4%
193	Kiribati	1.32%	1.32%	-0.1%
194	Kazakhstan	1.3%	1.17%	+10.9%
195	Saudi Arabia	1.29%	1.29%	+0.2%
196	Lesotho	1.14%	1.14%	0.0%
197	Yemen, Rep.	1.04%	1.04%	+0.0%
198	Mauritania	0.99%	0.9%	+9.6%
199	Niger	0.84%	1.54%	-45.5%
200	Jordan	0.8%	0.8%	-0.6%
201	Algeria	0.71%	0.72%	-1.3%
202	Iceland	0.6%	0.18%	+235.6%
203	Kuwait	0.35%	0.19%	+82.6%
204	Djibouti	0.26%	0.24%	+5.7%
205	Curacao	0.16%	0.16%	0.0%
206	Qatar	0.12%	0.12%	+1.0%
207	Libya	0.12%	0.12%	-5.2%
208	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.06%	+1.9%
209	Oman	0.01%	0.01%	0.0%
210	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0%	0%	+4.9%
211	Greenland	0%	0%	-16.7%
212	Gibraltar	0%	0%	—
213	Monaco	0%	0%	—
214	Naoero	0%	0%	—

Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator AG.LND.FRST.ZS — Forest Area (% of Land Area). Licensed CC BY 4.0. Latest data revision: 2026-10-29. Original dataset.