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Forest area by Country

Name: Forest Area (% of Land Area) by country
Creator: World Bank
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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	Suriname	94.45%	95.81%	-1.4%
2	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	92.16%	90.87%	+1.4%
3	Gabon	91.18%	92.22%	-1.1%
4	Palau	90.54%	83.25%	+8.8%
5	Solomon Islands	90.06%	90.92%	-0.9%
6	Guyana	87.09%	94.5%	-7.8%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.39%	96.23%	-10.2%
8	American Samoa	85.2%	90.35%	-5.7%
9	Papua New Guinea	78.95%	80.38%	-1.8%
10	Liberia	78.14%	88.51%	-11.7%
11	Finland	73.72%	71.82%	+2.7%
12	Seychelles	73.26%	73.26%	0.0%
13	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	70.62%	+3.6%
14	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	78.37%	-8.0%
15	Bhutan	71.61%	53.65%	+33.5%
16	Lao PDR	71.46%	77.31%	-7.6%
17	Guinea-Bissau	69.51%	79.42%	-12.5%
18	Sweden	68.7%	68.89%	-0.3%
19	Japan	68.4%	68.43%	-0.1%
20	Congo, Rep.	64.13%	65.34%	-1.9%
21	Korea, Rep.	64.11%	67.91%	-5.6%
22	Dominica	63.83%	67.08%	-4.8%
23	Fiji	63.5%	51.43%	+23.5%
24	Timor-Leste	61.66%	64.77%	-4.8%
25	Montenegro	61.49%	55.51%	+10.8%
26	Slovenia	61.17%	59.43%	+2.9%
27	Costa Rica	60.4%	56.94%	+6.1%
28	Zambia	59.52%	63.78%	-6.7%
29	Brazil	58.98%	70.46%	-16.3%
30	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	58.17%	70.11%	-17.0%
31	Malaysia	57.72%	62.76%	-8.0%
32	Samoa	57.64%	62.24%	-7.4%
33	Estonia	57.07%	52.19%	+9.3%
34	Panama	56.34%	61.98%	-9.1%
35	Honduras	56.27%	62.45%	-9.9%
36	Jamaica	56.19%	48.13%	+16.7%
37	Puerto Rico (US)	56.12%	36.11%	+55.4%
38	Peru	56.1%	59.73%	-6.1%
39	Latvia	55%	51.21%	+7.4%
40	Belize	54.52%	70.15%	-22.3%
41	Congo, Dem. Rep.	54.19%	66.44%	-18.4%
42	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	72.71%	-27.2%
43	Colombia	52.77%	58.55%	-9.9%
44	Cayman Islands	52.47%	54.71%	-4.1%
45	Venezuela, RB	52.23%	58.98%	-11.4%
46	Marshall Islands	52.22%	52.22%	0.0%
47	Sao Tome and Principe	52.13%	61.06%	-14.6%
48	Angola	52.09%	63.58%	-18.1%
49	Grenada	52.06%	52.06%	0.0%
50	Guam	51.85%	44.44%	+16.7%
51	Bahamas, The	50.94%	50.94%	0.0%
52	Tanzania	50.05%	64.79%	-22.7%
53	Russian Federation	49.78%	49.36%	+0.9%
54	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	49.55%	57.4%	-13.7%
55	Ecuador	49.55%	52.85%	-6.3%
56	Indonesia	47.72%	65.44%	-27.1%
57	Viet Nam	47.45%	28.81%	+64.7%
58	Austria	47.24%	45.75%	+3.2%
59	Bolivia	46.35%	53.36%	-13.1%
60	New Caledonia	45.83%	45.47%	+0.8%
61	Mozambique	45.81%	55.16%	-16.9%
62	Dominican Republic	44.99%	33.01%	+36.3%
63	Zimbabwe	44.74%	48.67%	-8.1%
64	Trinidad and Tobago	44.24%	47.19%	-6.3%
65	Belarus	43.41%	38.82%	+11.8%
66	Cambodia	43.06%	62.34%	-30.9%
67	French Polynesia	43.06%	39.46%	+9.1%
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.73%	42.78%	-0.1%
69	Cameroon	42.67%	47.6%	-10.3%
70	Myanmar	42.4%	60.01%	-29.3%
71	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	42.31%	0.0%
72	Liechtenstein	41.88%	40.63%	+3.1%
73	Nepal	41.59%	39.66%	+4.9%
74	Senegal	41.28%	48.32%	-14.6%
75	Georgia	40.62%	39.63%	+2.5%
76	Slovak Republic	40.06%	39.55%	+1.3%
77	North Macedonia	39.71%	36.22%	+9.6%
78	Canada	39.46%	38.85%	+1.6%
79	Thailand	38.69%	37.9%	+2.1%
80	Paraguay	38.54%	64.3%	-40.1%
81	New Zealand	37.79%	35.59%	+6.2%
82	Spain	37.19%	27.84%	+33.6%
83	Vanuatu	36.28%	36.28%	0.0%
84	Bulgaria	36.22%	30.07%	+20.4%
85	Portugal	36.15%	37.15%	-2.7%
86	Central African Republic	35.66%	37.25%	-4.3%
87	Lithuania	35.23%	31.27%	+12.7%
88	Ghana	35.19%	43.62%	-19.3%
89	Croatia	34.79%	33.21%	+4.7%
90	Czechia	34.76%	34.06%	+2.1%
91	Luxembourg	34.45%	33.68%	+2.3%
92	Sierra Leone	34.3%	43.32%	-20.8%
93	St. Lucia	34.05%	34.87%	-2.4%
94	Andorra	34.04%	34.04%	0.0%
95	Sri Lanka	34%	37.48%	-9.3%
96	United States	33.87%	33.02%	+2.6%
97	Mexico	33.6%	36.31%	-7.5%
98	Norway	33.5%	33.22%	+0.9%
99	Tuvalu	33.33%	33.33%	0.0%
100	Italy	32.89%	25.81%	+27.5%
101	Germany	32.68%	32.37%	+1.0%
102	Guatemala	32.6%	44.62%	-26.9%
103	France	32.48%	26.79%	+21.2%
104	Serbia	32.39%	29.86%	+8.5%
105	Switzerland	32.38%	29.18%	+11.0%
106	Cuba	31.23%	19.16%	+63.0%
107	Poland	31.08%	29%	+7.2%
108	Greece	30.27%	25.59%	+18.3%
109	Romania	30.12%	27.78%	+8.4%
110	Turkiye	29.48%	25.71%	+14.7%
111	Eswatini	29.14%	26.81%	+8.7%
112	Albania	28.79%	28.79%	+0.0%
113	El Salvador	27.53%	34.69%	-20.7%
114	Benin	26.47%	42.88%	-38.3%
115	Botswana	26.29%	33.18%	-20.8%
116	Nicaragua	25.82%	53.18%	-51.4%
117	Chile	25.01%	20.5%	+22.0%
118	St. Martin (French part)	24.8%	24.8%	0.0%
119	Guinea	24.7%	29.61%	-16.6%
120	India	24.54%	21.5%	+14.1%
121	Philippines	24.46%	26.09%	-6.2%
122	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	24.73%	-2.4%
123	China	24.03%	16.74%	+43.6%
124	Nigeria	23.21%	29.12%	-20.3%
125	Belgium	22.6%	22%	+2.8%
126	Hungary	22.45%	20.18%	+11.2%
127	Malawi	22.44%	37.14%	-39.6%
128	Gambia, The	22.28%	40.97%	-45.6%
129	Burkina Faso	22.17%	28.2%	-21.4%
130	Togo	22.07%	25.04%	-11.8%
131	Madagascar	21.3%	23.55%	-9.6%
132	Singapore	20.93%	22.13%	-5.4%
133	Mauritius	19.47%	20.23%	-3.7%
134	Cyprus	18.67%	17.44%	+7.1%
135	Bermuda	18.52%	18.52%	0.0%
136	Antigua and Barbuda	18.01%	22.98%	-21.6%
137	Australia	17.42%	17.43%	-0.0%
138	Comoros	16.98%	24.75%	-31.4%
139	Ukraine	16.76%	16.09%	+4.1%
140	San Marino	16.67%	16.67%	0.0%
141	Denmark	15.78%	13.29%	+18.8%
142	Ethiopia	14.93%	19.04%	-21.6%
143	Barbados	14.65%	14.65%	0.0%
144	Bangladesh	14.49%	14.75%	-1.8%
145	Lebanon	14.19%	13.66%	+3.9%
146	Azerbaijan	14.11%	11.45%	+23.2%
147	South Africa	13.97%	14.96%	-6.6%
148	United Kingdom	13.29%	11.48%	+15.7%
149	Morocco	12.94%	12.29%	+5.3%
150	Tonga	12.43%	12.43%	0.0%
151	Haiti	12.26%	13.89%	-11.7%
152	Uruguay	11.96%	4.56%	+162.4%
153	Moldova	11.74%	10.02%	+17.2%
154	Armenia	11.62%	11.74%	-1.1%
155	Cabo Verde	11.57%	3.82%	+203.1%
156	Ireland	11.53%	6.7%	+72.0%
157	South Sudan	11.33%	11.33%	0.0%
158	Rwanda	11.31%	12.85%	-12.0%
159	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	11.07%	0.0%
160	Netherlands	11.06%	10.23%	+8.1%
161	Uganda	11.04%	17.89%	-38.3%
162	Mali	10.9%	10.9%	0.0%
163	Burundi	10.89%	10.77%	+1.1%
164	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	10.88%	0.0%
165	Argentina	10.32%	12.86%	-19.8%
166	Sudan	9.55%	10.56%	-9.6%
167	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9.17%	13.2%	-30.6%
168	Mongolia	9.09%	9.27%	-2.0%
169	Turkmenistan	8.78%	8.78%	0.0%
170	Eritrea	8.63%	11.29%	-23.6%
171	Uzbekistan	8.55%	6.19%	+38.2%
172	Cote d'Ivoire	7.86%	24.69%	-68.2%
173	Namibia	7.81%	10.65%	-26.7%
174	Kyrgyz Republic	7.14%	5.97%	+19.6%
175	Iran, Islamic Rep.	6.65%	5.57%	+19.3%
176	Israel	6.47%	6.1%	+6.1%
177	Kenya	6.22%	6.78%	-8.3%
178	Isle of Man	6.07%	6.07%	0.0%
179	Channel Islands	5.15%	4.19%	+22.9%
180	Pakistan	4.67%	6.47%	-27.8%
181	Tunisia	4.55%	4.15%	+9.8%
182	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	3.45%	+29.5%
183	Chad	3.16%	5.34%	-40.9%
184	Tajikistan	3.08%	2.92%	+5.4%
185	Syrian Arab Republic	2.84%	2.02%	+40.4%
186	Maldives	2.75%	2.73%	+0.7%
187	Aruba	2.33%	2.33%	0.0%
188	Iraq	1.9%	1.84%	+3.4%
189	Afghanistan	1.85%	1.85%	0.0%
190	West Bank and Gaza	1.68%	1.51%	+11.6%
191	Kiribati	1.46%	1.46%	0.0%
192	Malta	1.44%	1.09%	+31.4%
193	Kazakhstan	1.31%	1.17%	+12.1%
194	Lesotho	1.14%	1.14%	0.0%
195	Jordan	1.1%	1.1%	-0.6%
196	Yemen, Rep.	1.04%	1.04%	0.0%
197	Bahrain	0.95%	0.32%	+198.0%
198	Algeria	0.83%	0.7%	+18.6%
199	Niger	0.82%	1.54%	-46.4%
200	Iceland	0.53%	0.17%	+210.5%
201	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.45%	0.0%
202	Kuwait	0.35%	0.19%	+81.2%
203	Mauritania	0.29%	0.46%	-37.7%
204	Djibouti	0.26%	0.24%	+7.9%
205	Curacao	0.16%	0.16%	0.0%
206	Libya	0.12%	0.12%	0.0%
207	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.06%	+1.9%
208	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.05%	0.04%	+2.7%
209	Oman	0.01%	0.01%	-21.4%
210	Greenland	0%	0%	-16.7%
211	Qatar	0%	0%	—
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: 2026-09-13. Original dataset.