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Forest area

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.

Unit: % of land area. Original provider definition and metadata ↗

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Covered economies, 2023

EconomyValue
Afghanistan1.9%
Albania34.3%
Algeria0.7%
Andorra38.9%
Angola51.6%
Antigua and Barbuda18.0%
Argentina17.2%
Armenia11.8%
Aruba2.7%
Australia17.3%
Austria47.2%
Azerbaijan14.4%
Bahamas, The50.9%
Bahrain4.3%
Bangladesh14.4%
Barbados14.7%
Belarus44.0%
Belgium22.0%
Belize58.3%
Benin28.5%
Bermuda14.4%
Bhutan70.6%
Bolivia50.4%
Bosnia and Herzegovina42.2%
Botswana27.8%
Brazil58.9%
Brunei Darussalam72.1%
Bulgaria36.2%
Burkina Faso12.7%
Burundi10.9%
Cabo Verde12.4%
Cambodia39.4%
Cameroon41.0%
Canada42.0%
Cayman Islands53.0%
Central African Republic72.5%
Chad3.1%
Chile24.5%
China23.9%
Colombia53.8%
Comoros17.8%
Congo, Dem. Rep.61.6%
Congo, Rep.63.9%
Costa Rica59.0%
Cote d'Ivoire12.4%
Croatia34.7%
Curacao0.2%
Cyprus18.6%
Czechia38.2%
Denmark16.0%
Djibouti0.3%
Dominica76.5%
Dominican Republic46.6%
Ecuador49.8%
Egypt, Arab Rep.0.0%
El Salvador33.0%
Equatorial Guinea86.4%
Estonia57.2%
Eswatini25.4%
Ethiopia23.8%
Faroe Islands0.1%
Fiji61.7%
Finland74.2%
France32.7%
Gabon91.5%
Gambia, The22.0%
Georgia44.6%
Germany32.8%
Ghana30.7%
Greece36.9%
Greenland0.0%
Grenada51.5%
Guatemala33.2%
Guinea20.3%
Guinea-Bissau75.0%
Guyana87.1%
Haiti13.4%
Honduras53.3%
Hungary22.7%
Iceland0.6%
India24.4%
Indonesia50.6%
Iran, Islamic Rep.6.6%
Iraq1.6%
Ireland11.9%
Israel6.7%
Italy31.8%
Jamaica56.2%
Japan68.3%
Jordan0.8%
Kazakhstan1.3%
Kenya6.5%
Kiribati1.3%
Korea, Rep.64.4%
Kuwait0.4%
Kyrgyz Republic6.5%
Lao PDR56.8%
Latvia55.5%
Lebanon13.8%
Lesotho1.1%
Liberia66.5%
Libya0.1%
Lithuania35.3%
Luxembourg34.5%
Madagascar17.5%
Malawi22.4%
Malaysia57.8%
Maldives12.5%
Mali8.8%
Malta1.5%
Marshall Islands53.6%
Mauritania1.0%
Mauritius19.1%
Mexico34.2%
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.92.0%
Moldova11.3%
Mongolia9.1%
Montenegro61.5%
Morocco12.8%
Mozambique41.7%
Myanmar42.4%
Namibia9.8%
Naoero0.0%
Nepal43.5%
Netherlands10.9%
New Zealand38.6%
Nicaragua25.8%
Niger0.8%
Nigeria19.1%
North Macedonia40.9%
Norway33.3%
Oman0.0%
Pakistan4.1%
Palau90.8%
Panama62.3%
Papua New Guinea75.2%
Paraguay36.9%
Peru52.9%
Philippines24.7%
Poland31.0%
Portugal36.6%
Puerto Rico (US)50.3%
Qatar0.1%
Romania30.2%
Russian Federation50.7%
Rwanda25.5%
Samoa57.8%
San Marino16.3%
Sao Tome and Principe57.5%
Saudi Arabia1.3%
Senegal45.1%
Serbia38.8%
Seychelles59.0%
Sierra Leone34.3%
Singapore21.8%
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)8.8%
Slovak Republic40.3%
Slovenia61.8%
Solomon Islands89.9%
Somalia, Fed. Rep.7.9%
South Africa18.7%
Spain38.2%
Sri Lanka34.4%
St. Kitts and Nevis42.1%
St. Lucia53.7%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines73.4%
Sudan12.0%
Suriname91.7%
Sweden68.6%
Switzerland32.0%
Tajikistan3.1%
Tanzania50.2%
Thailand39.0%
Timor-Leste71.0%
Togo22.4%
Tonga12.1%
Trinidad and Tobago44.2%
Tunisia4.5%
Turkiye29.3%
Turkmenistan5.0%
Turks and Caicos Islands11.1%
Tuvalu39.6%
Uganda12.1%
Ukraine17.3%
United Arab Emirates4.6%
United Kingdom13.4%
United States33.8%
Uruguay11.4%
Uzbekistan8.7%
Vanuatu74.8%
Viet Nam47.0%
West Bank and Gaza1.8%
Zambia60.6%
Zimbabwe35.9%

Snapshot retrieval: 2026-11-01. Coverage is limited to the atlas comparison set. Download and limitations.