Forest area

Ranked among 213 profiles with 2023 data. Status, source, and year are named on each row. Taiwan and Kosovo remain special status in this list.

Unit: percent of land area. Preferred source: world-bank-wdi.

Rank	Profile	Status	2023 value
1	Suriname	UN member	94.4% actual
2	Micronesia	UN member	92.2% actual
3	Gabon	UN member	91.2% actual
4	Palau	UN member	90.5% actual
5	Solomon Islands	UN member	90.1% actual
6	Guyana	UN member	87.1% actual
7	Equatorial Guinea	UN member	86.4% actual
8	American Samoa	Territory	85.2% actual
9	Papua New Guinea	UN member	79% actual
10	Liberia	UN member	78.1% actual
11	Finland	UN member	73.7% actual
12	Seychelles	UN member	73.3% actual
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	UN member	73.2% actual
14	Brunei	UN member	72.1% actual
15	Bhutan	UN member	71.6% actual
16	Laos	UN member	71.5% actual
17	Guinea-Bissau	UN member	69.5% actual
18	Sweden	UN member	68.7% actual
19	Japan	UN member	68.4% actual
20	Republic of the Congo	UN member	64.1% actual
21	South Korea	UN member	64.1% actual
22	Dominica	UN member	63.8% actual
23	Fiji	UN member	63.5% actual
24	Timor-Leste	UN member	61.7% actual
25	Montenegro	UN member	61.5% actual
26	Slovenia	UN member	61.2% actual
27	Costa Rica	UN member	60.4% actual
28	Zambia	UN member	59.5% actual
29	Brazil	UN member	59% actual
30	U.S. Virgin Islands	Territory	58.2% actual
31	Malaysia	UN member	57.7% actual
32	Samoa	UN member	57.6% actual
33	Estonia	UN member	57.1% actual
34	Panama	UN member	56.3% actual
35	Honduras	UN member	56.3% actual
36	Jamaica	UN member	56.2% actual
37	Puerto Rico	Territory	56.1% actual
38	Peru	UN member	56.1% actual
39	Latvia	UN member	55% actual
40	Belize	UN member	54.5% actual
41	Democratic Republic of the Congo	UN member	54.2% actual
42	Northern Mariana Islands	Territory	53% actual
43	Colombia	UN member	52.8% actual
44	Cayman Islands	Dependency	52.5% actual
45	Venezuela	UN member	52.2% actual
46	Marshall Islands	UN member	52.2% actual
47	Sao Tome and Principe	UN member	52.1% actual
48	Angola	UN member	52.1% actual
49	Grenada	UN member	52.1% actual
50	Guam	Territory	51.9% actual
51	Bahamas	UN member	50.9% actual
52	Tanzania	UN member	50.1% actual
53	Russia	UN member	49.8% actual
54	North Korea	UN member	49.6% actual
55	Ecuador	UN member	49.5% actual
56	Indonesia	UN member	47.7% actual
57	Vietnam	UN member	47.4% actual
58	Austria	UN member	47.2% actual
59	Bolivia	UN member	46.3% actual
60	New Caledonia	Dependency	45.8% actual
61	Mozambique	UN member	45.8% actual
62	Dominican Republic	UN member	45% actual
63	Zimbabwe	UN member	44.7% actual
64	Trinidad and Tobago	UN member	44.2% actual
65	Belarus	UN member	43.4% actual
66	Cambodia	UN member	43.1% actual
67	French Polynesia	Dependency	43.1% actual
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	UN member	42.7% actual
69	Cameroon	UN member	42.7% actual
70	Myanmar	UN member	42.4% actual
71	Saint Kitts and Nevis	UN member	42.3% actual
72	Liechtenstein	UN member	41.9% actual
73	Nepal	UN member	41.6% actual
74	Senegal	UN member	41.3% actual
75	Georgia	UN member	40.6% actual
76	Slovakia	UN member	40.1% actual
77	North Macedonia	UN member	39.7% actual
78	Canada	UN member	39.5% actual
79	Thailand	UN member	38.7% actual
80	Paraguay	UN member	38.5% actual
81	New Zealand	UN member	37.8% actual
82	Spain	UN member	37.2% actual
83	Vanuatu	UN member	36.3% actual
84	Bulgaria	UN member	36.2% actual
85	Portugal	UN member	36.2% actual
86	Central African Republic	UN member	35.7% actual
87	Lithuania	UN member	35.2% actual
88	Ghana	UN member	35.2% actual
89	Croatia	UN member	34.8% actual
90	Czechia	UN member	34.8% actual
91	Luxembourg	UN member	34.5% actual
92	Sierra Leone	UN member	34.3% actual
93	Saint Lucia	UN member	34% actual
94	Andorra	UN member	34% actual
95	Sri Lanka	UN member	34% actual
96	United States	UN member	33.9% actual
97	Mexico	UN member	33.6% actual
98	Norway	UN member	33.5% actual
99	Tuvalu	UN member	33.3% actual
100	Italy	UN member	32.9% actual
101	Germany	UN member	32.7% actual
102	Guatemala	UN member	32.6% actual
103	France	UN member	32.5% actual
104	Serbia	UN member	32.4% actual
105	Switzerland	UN member	32.4% actual
106	Cuba	UN member	31.2% actual
107	Poland	UN member	31.1% actual
108	Greece	UN member	30.3% actual
109	Romania	UN member	30.1% actual
110	Türkiye	UN member	29.5% actual
111	Eswatini	UN member	29.1% actual
112	Albania	UN member	28.8% actual
113	El Salvador	UN member	27.5% actual
114	Benin	UN member	26.5% actual
115	Botswana	UN member	26.3% actual
116	Nicaragua	UN member	25.8% actual
117	Chile	UN member	25% actual
118	Saint Martin	Dependency	24.8% actual
119	Guinea	UN member	24.7% actual
120	India	UN member	24.5% actual
121	Philippines	UN member	24.5% actual
122	British Virgin Islands	Dependency	24.1% actual
123	China	UN member	24% actual
124	Nigeria	UN member	23.2% actual
125	Belgium	UN member	22.6% actual
126	Hungary	UN member	22.4% actual
127	Malawi	UN member	22.4% actual
128	Gambia	UN member	22.3% actual
129	Burkina Faso	UN member	22.2% actual
130	Togo	UN member	22.1% actual
131	Madagascar	UN member	21.3% actual
132	Singapore	UN member	20.9% actual
133	Mauritius	UN member	19.5% actual
134	Cyprus	UN member	18.7% actual
135	Bermuda	Dependency	18.5% actual
136	Antigua and Barbuda	UN member	18% actual
137	Australia	UN member	17.4% actual
138	Comoros	UN member	17% actual
139	Ukraine	UN member	16.8% actual
140	San Marino	UN member	16.7% actual
141	Denmark	UN member	15.8% actual
142	Ethiopia	UN member	14.9% actual
143	Barbados	UN member	14.7% actual
144	Bangladesh	UN member	14.5% actual
145	Lebanon	UN member	14.2% actual
146	Azerbaijan	UN member	14.1% actual
147	South Africa	UN member	14% actual
148	United Kingdom	UN member	13.3% actual
149	Morocco	UN member	12.9% actual
150	Tonga	UN member	12.4% actual
151	Haiti	UN member	12.3% actual
152	Uruguay	UN member	12% actual
153	Moldova	UN member	11.7% actual
154	Armenia	UN member	11.6% actual
155	Cabo Verde	UN member	11.6% actual
156	Ireland	UN member	11.5% actual
157	South Sudan	UN member	11.3% actual
158	Rwanda	UN member	11.3% actual
159	Turks and Caicos Islands	Dependency	11.1% actual
160	Netherlands	UN member	11.1% actual
161	Uganda	UN member	11% actual
162	Mali	UN member	10.9% actual
163	Burundi	UN member	10.9% actual
164	Sint Maarten	Dependency	10.9% actual
165	Argentina	UN member	10.3% actual
166	Sudan	UN member	9.6% actual
167	Somalia	UN member	9.2% actual
168	Mongolia	UN member	9.1% actual
169	Turkmenistan	UN member	8.8% actual
170	Eritrea	UN member	8.6% actual
171	Uzbekistan	UN member	8.5% actual
172	Côte d’Ivoire	UN member	7.9% actual
173	Namibia	UN member	7.8% actual
174	Kyrgyzstan	UN member	7.1% actual
175	Iran	UN member	6.6% actual
176	Israel	UN member	6.5% actual
177	Kenya	UN member	6.2% actual
178	Isle of Man	Dependency	6.1% actual
179	Pakistan	UN member	4.7% actual
180	Tunisia	UN member	4.6% actual
181	United Arab Emirates	UN member	4.5% actual
182	Chad	UN member	3.2% actual
183	Tajikistan	UN member	3.1% actual
184	Syria	UN member	2.8% actual
185	Maldives	UN member	2.8% actual
186	Aruba	Dependency	2.3% actual
187	Iraq	UN member	1.9% actual
188	Afghanistan	UN member	1.9% actual
189	Palestine	UN observer	1.7% actual
190	Kiribati	UN member	1.5% actual
191	Malta	UN member	1.4% actual
192	Kazakhstan	UN member	1.3% actual
193	Lesotho	UN member	1.1% actual
194	Jordan	UN member	1.1% actual
195	Yemen	UN member	1% actual
196	Bahrain	UN member	1% actual
197	Algeria	UN member	0.8% actual
198	Niger	UN member	0.8% actual
199	Iceland	UN member	0.5% actual
200	Saudi Arabia	UN member	0.5% actual
201	Kuwait	UN member	0.4% actual
202	Mauritania	UN member	0.3% actual
203	Djibouti	UN member	0.3% actual
204	Curaçao	Dependency	0.2% actual
205	Libya	UN member	0.1% actual
206	Faroe Islands	Dependency	0.1% actual
207	Egypt	UN member	0% actual
208	Oman	UN member	0% actual
209	Greenland	Dependency	0% actual
210	Gibraltar	Dependency	0% actual
210	Monaco	UN member	0% actual
210	Nauru	UN member	0% actual
210	Qatar	UN member	0% actual

No 2023 figure

These profiles are not ranked for this year. Absence is not zero.

Åland Islands Statistical area
Anguilla Dependency
Caribbean Netherlands Territory
Christmas Island Territory
Cocos Islands Territory
Cook Islands Associated state
Falkland Islands Dependency
French Guiana Territory
Guadeloupe Territory
Guernsey Dependency
Holy See UN observer
Hong Kong Special administrative region
Jersey Dependency
Kosovo Special status
Macau Special administrative region
Martinique Territory
Mayotte Territory
Montserrat Dependency
Niue Associated state
Norfolk Island Territory
Réunion Territory
Saint Barthélemy Dependency
Saint Helena Dependency
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Dependency
Taiwan Special status
Tokelau Territory
Wallis and Futuna Dependency
Western Sahara Special status