Forest Area by Country (2023)

World rankings for Forest Area. Higher values rank higher. Based on latest available data.

# Country Value CAGR 1Y
1 Suriname 94.4% 0.0% -0.1% 2 Micronesia 92.2% 0.0% 0.1% 3 Gabon 91.2% 0.0% -0.1% 4 Palau 90.5% 0.3% 0.2% 5 Solomon Islands 90.1% 0.0% 0.0% 6 Guyana 87.1% -0.2% -0.1% 7 Equatorial Guinea 86.4% -0.3% -0.3% 8 Papua New Guinea 79.0% -0.1% -0.1% 9 Liberia 78.1% -0.4% -0.4% 10 Finland 73.7% 0.1% 0.0% 11 Seychelles 73.3% 0.0% 0.0% 12 Saint Vincent 73.2% 0.1% 0.0% 13 Brunei 72.1% -0.3% 0.0% 14 Bhutan 71.6% 0.9% 0.1% 15 Laos 71.5% -0.2% -0.2% 16 Guinea-Bissau 69.5% -0.4% -0.4% 17 Sweden 68.7% 0.0% 0.0% 18 Japan 68.4% 0.0% 0.0% 19 Congo Republic 64.1% -0.1% -0.1% 20 South Korea 64.1% -0.2% -0.2% 21 Dominica 63.8% -0.2% 0.0% 22 Fiji 63.5% 0.6% 0.6% 23 Timor-Leste 61.7% -0.1% -0.2% 24 Montenegro 61.5% 0.6% 0.0% 25 Slovenia 61.2% 0.1% -0.2% 26 Costa Rica 60.4% 0.2% 0.5% 27 Zambia 59.5% -0.2% -0.4% 28 Brazil 59.0% -0.5% -0.3% 29 Malaysia 57.7% -0.3% -0.3% 30 Samoa 57.6% -0.2% -0.3% 31 Estonia 57.1% 0.3% 0.0% 32 Panama 56.3% -0.3% -0.3% 33 Honduras 56.3% -0.3% -0.3% 34 Jamaica 56.2% 0.5% 0.6% 35 Peru 56.1% -0.2% -0.2% 36 Latvia 55.0% 0.2% 0.1% 37 Belize 54.5% -0.8% -0.9% 38 DR Congo 54.2% -0.6% -0.9% 39 Colombia 52.8% -0.3% -0.3% 40 Venezuela 52.2% -0.4% -0.1% 41 Marshall Islands 52.2% 0.0% 0.0% 42 Sao Tome and Principe 52.1% -0.5% -1.2% 43 Angola 52.1% -0.6% -0.9% 44 Grenada 52.1% 0.0% 0.0% 45 Bahamas 50.9% 0.0% 0.0% 46 Russia 49.8% 0.0% 0.0% 47 North Korea 49.6% -0.4% -0.4% 48 Ecuador 49.5% -0.2% -0.5% 49 Indonesia 47.7% -1.0% -0.7% 50 Vietnam 47.4% 1.5% 0.5% 51 Austria 47.2% 0.1% 0.1% 52 Bolivia 46.3% -0.4% -0.4% 53 Mozambique 45.8% -0.6% -0.7% 54 Dominican Republic 45.0% 0.9% 0.4% 55 Zimbabwe 44.7% -0.3% -0.3% 56 Trinidad and Tobago 44.2% -0.2% -0.2% 57 Belarus 43.4% 0.4% 0.2% 58 Cambodia 43.1% -1.1% -2.0% 59 Bosnia and Herzegovina 42.7% 0.0% 0.0% 60 Cameroon 42.7% -0.3% -0.3% 61 Myanmar 42.4% -1.0% -1.0% 62 Saint Kitts and Nevis 42.3% 0.0% 0.0% 63 Liechtenstein 41.9% 0.1% 0.0% 64 Nepal 41.6% 0.1% 0.0% 65 Georgia 40.6% 0.1% 0.0% 66 Slovakia 40.1% 0.0% 0.0% 67 North Macedonia 39.7% 0.3% 0.0% 68 Canada 39.5% 0.0% 0.0% 69 Thailand 38.7% 0.1% -0.2% 70 Paraguay 38.5% -1.5% -1.8% 71 New Zealand 37.8% 0.2% 0.2% 72 Spain 37.2% 0.9% 0.0% 73 Vanuatu 36.3% 0.0% 0.0% 74 Bulgaria 36.2% 0.6% 0.3% 75 Portugal 36.2% -0.1% 0.0% 76 Central African Republic 35.7% -0.1% -0.1% 77 Lithuania 35.2% 0.4% 0.1% 78 Ghana 35.2% -0.6% 0.1% 79 Croatia 34.8% 0.1% 0.1% 80 Czechia 34.8% 0.1% 0.1% 81 Luxembourg 34.5% 0.1% 0.0% 82 Sierra Leone 34.3% -0.7% -0.8% 83 Saint Lucia 34.0% -0.1% 0.0% 84 Andorra 34.0% 0.0% 0.0% 85 Sri Lanka 34.0% -0.3% -0.2% 86 United States 33.9% 0.1% 0.0% 87 Mexico 33.6% -0.2% -0.2% 88 Norway 33.5% 0.0% 0.1% 89 Tuvalu 33.3% 0.0% 0.0% 90 Italy 32.9% 0.7% 0.6% 91 Germany 32.7% 0.0% 0.0% 92 Guatemala 32.6% -0.9% -0.3% 93 France 32.5% 0.6% 0.5% 94 Serbia 32.4% 0.5% 0.0% 95 Switzerland 32.4% 0.3% 0.3% 96 Cuba 31.2% 1.5% 0.0% 97 Greece 30.3% 0.5% 0.0% 98 Romania 30.1% 0.2% 0.0% 99 Eswatini 29.1% 0.3% 0.2% 100 Albania 28.8% 0.0% 0.0% 101 El Salvador 27.5% -0.7% -0.8% 102 Benin 26.5% -1.5% -1.7% 103 Botswana 26.3% -0.7% -0.8% 104 Nicaragua 25.8% -2.2% -3.1% 105 Chile 25.0% 0.6% 0.7% 106 Guinea 24.7% -0.5% -0.7% 107 India 24.5% 0.4% 0.4% 108 Philippines 24.5% -0.2% 0.5% 109 China 24.0% 1.1% 0.8% 110 Nigeria 23.2% -0.7% -0.8% 111 Belgium 22.6% 0.1% 0.0% 112 Hungary 22.4% 0.3% -0.1% 113 Malawi 22.4% -1.5% -2.0% 114 Gambia 22.3% -1.8% -2.5% 115 Burkina Faso 22.2% -0.7% -0.8% 116 Togo 22.1% -0.4% -0.3% 117 Madagascar 21.3% -0.3% -0.1% 118 Singapore 20.9% -0.2% -1.2% 119 Mauritius 19.5% -0.1% 0.1% 120 Cyprus 18.7% 0.2% 0.0% 121 Antigua and Barbuda 18.0% -0.7% -0.8% 122 Australia 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 123 Comoros 17.0% -1.1% -1.4% 124 Ukraine 16.8% 0.1% 0.1% 125 San Marino 16.7% 0.0% 0.0% 126 Denmark 15.8% 0.5% 0.2% 127 Ethiopia 14.9% -0.8% -0.4% 128 Barbados 14.7% 0.0% 0.0% 129 Bangladesh 14.5% -0.1% 0.2% 130 Lebanon 14.2% 0.1% 0.4% 131 Azerbaijan 14.1% 0.7% 1.0% 132 South Africa 14.0% -0.2% -0.2% 133 United Kingdom 13.3% 0.4% 0.3% 134 Morocco 12.9% 0.2% 0.2% 135 Tonga 12.4% 0.0% 0.0% 136 Haiti 12.3% -0.4% -0.9% 137 Uruguay 12.0% 3.0% 1.0% 138 Moldova 11.7% 0.5% -0.2% 139 Armenia 11.6% 0.0% -0.1% 140 Cape Verde 11.6% 3.4% 0.7% 141 Ireland 11.5% 1.7% 0.5% 142 South Sudan 11.3% 0.0% 0.0% 143 Rwanda 11.3% -0.4% 0.4% 144 Netherlands 11.1% 0.2% 0.3% 145 Uganda 11.0% -1.5% -1.8% 146 Mali 10.9% 0.0% 0.0% 147 Burundi 10.9% 0.0% 0.0% 148 Argentina 10.3% -0.7% -0.4% 149 Sudan 9.6% -0.9% -1.0% 150 Somalia 9.2% -1.1% -1.3% 151 Mongolia 9.1% -0.1% -0.1% 152 Turkmenistan 8.8% 0.0% 0.0% 153 Eritrea 8.6% -0.9% -0.3% 154 Uzbekistan 8.5% 1.0% 0.7% 155 Ivory Coast 7.9% -3.4% -4.3% 156 Namibia 7.8% -0.9% -1.1% 157 Kyrgyzstan 7.1% 0.6% 1.4% 158 Iran 6.6% 0.5% 0.1% 159 Israel 6.5% 0.2% 0.0% 160 Kenya 6.2% -0.3% 0.0% 161 Pakistan 4.7% -1.0% -1.1% 162 Tunisia 4.6% 0.3% 0.2% 163 United Arab Emirates 4.5% 0.8% 0.0% 164 Chad 3.2% -1.6% -2.7% 165 Tajikistan 3.1% 0.2% 0.2% 166 Syria 2.8% 1.0% 0.0% 167 Maldives 2.8% 0.0% 0.7% 168 Iraq 1.9% 0.1% 0.0% 169 Afghanistan 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 170 Palestine 1.7% 0.3% 0.0% 171 Kiribati 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 172 Malta 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 173 Kazakhstan 1.3% 0.4% 0.8% 174 Lesotho 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 175 Jordan 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 176 Yemen 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 177 Bahrain 1.0% 3.4% 1.4% 178 Algeria 0.8% 0.5% 0.5% 179 Niger 0.8% -1.9% -1.2% 180 Iceland 0.5% 3.5% 1.2% 181 Saudi Arabia 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 182 Kuwait 0.4% 1.8% 0.0% 183 Mauritania 0.3% -1.4% -1.8% 184 Djibouti 0.3% 0.2% 1.3% 185 Libya 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 186 Egypt 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 187 Oman 0.0% -0.7% -2.2% 188 Monaco 0.0% - - 189 Nauru 0.0% - - 190 Qatar 0.0% - -

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