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Forest area by country — world rankings

Ranking 169 countries with data.

Forest area

Rank Country Value
1 Suriname 94.4% (2023)
2 Gabon 91.2% (2023)
3 Solomon Is. 90.1% (2023)
4 Guyana 87.1% (2023)
5 Eq. Guinea 86.4% (2023)
6 Papua New Guinea 79.0% (2023)
7 Liberia 78.1% (2023)
8 Finland 73.7% (2023)
9 Brunei 72.1% (2023)
10 Bhutan 71.6% (2023)
11 Laos 71.5% (2023)
12 Guinea-Bissau 69.5% (2023)
13 Sweden 68.7% (2023)
14 Japan 68.4% (2023)
15 Congo 64.1% (2023)
16 South Korea 64.1% (2023)
17 Fiji 63.5% (2023)
18 Timor-Leste 61.7% (2023)
19 Montenegro 61.5% (2023)
20 Slovenia 61.2% (2023)
21 Costa Rica 60.4% (2023)
22 Zambia 59.5% (2023)
23 Brazil 59.0% (2023)
24 Malaysia 57.7% (2023)
25 Estonia 57.1% (2023)
26 Panama 56.3% (2023)
27 Honduras 56.3% (2023)
28 Jamaica 56.2% (2023)
29 Puerto Rico 56.1% (2023)
30 Peru 56.1% (2023)
31 Latvia 55.0% (2023)
32 Belize 54.5% (2023)
33 Dem. Rep. Congo 54.2% (2023)
34 Colombia 52.8% (2023)
35 Venezuela 52.2% (2023)
36 Angola 52.1% (2023)
37 Bahamas 50.9% (2023)
38 Tanzania 50.1% (2023)
39 Russia 49.8% (2023)
40 North Korea 49.6% (2023)
41 Ecuador 49.5% (2023)
42 Indonesia 47.7% (2023)
43 Vietnam 47.4% (2023)
44 Austria 47.2% (2023)
45 Bolivia 46.3% (2023)
46 New Caledonia 45.8% (2023)
47 Mozambique 45.8% (2023)
48 Dominican Rep. 45.0% (2023)
49 Zimbabwe 44.7% (2023)
50 Trinidad and Tobago 44.2% (2023)
51 Belarus 43.4% (2023)
52 Cambodia 43.1% (2023)
53 Bosnia and Herz. 42.7% (2023)
54 Cameroon 42.7% (2023)
55 Myanmar 42.4% (2023)
56 Nepal 41.6% (2023)
57 Senegal 41.3% (2023)
58 Georgia 40.6% (2023)
59 Slovakia 40.1% (2023)
60 Macedonia 39.7% (2023)
61 Canada 39.5% (2023)
62 Thailand 38.7% (2023)
63 Paraguay 38.5% (2023)
64 New Zealand 37.8% (2023)
65 Spain 37.2% (2023)
66 Vanuatu 36.3% (2023)
67 Bulgaria 36.2% (2023)
68 Portugal 36.2% (2023)
69 Central African Rep. 35.7% (2023)
70 Lithuania 35.2% (2023)
71 Ghana 35.2% (2023)
72 Croatia 34.8% (2023)
73 Czechia 34.8% (2023)
74 Luxembourg 34.5% (2023)
75 Sierra Leone 34.3% (2023)
76 Sri Lanka 34.0% (2023)
77 United States 33.9% (2023)
78 Mexico 33.6% (2023)
79 Norway 33.5% (2023)
80 Italy 32.9% (2023)
81 Germany 32.7% (2023)
82 Guatemala 32.6% (2023)
83 France 32.5% (2023)
84 Serbia 32.4% (2023)
85 Switzerland 32.4% (2023)
86 Cuba 31.2% (2023)
87 Poland 31.1% (2023)
88 Greece 30.3% (2023)
89 Romania 30.1% (2023)
90 Turkey 29.5% (2023)
91 eSwatini 29.1% (2023)
92 Albania 28.8% (2023)
93 El Salvador 27.5% (2023)
94 Benin 26.5% (2023)
95 Botswana 26.3% (2023)
96 Nicaragua 25.8% (2023)
97 Chile 25.0% (2023)
98 Guinea 24.7% (2023)
99 India 24.5% (2023)
100 Philippines 24.5% (2023)
101 China 24.0% (2023)
102 Nigeria 23.2% (2023)
103 Belgium 22.6% (2023)
104 Hungary 22.4% (2023)
105 Malawi 22.4% (2023)
106 Gambia 22.3% (2023)
107 Burkina Faso 22.2% (2023)
108 Togo 22.1% (2023)
109 Madagascar 21.3% (2023)
110 Cyprus 18.7% (2023)
111 Australia 17.4% (2023)
112 Ukraine 16.8% (2023)
113 Denmark 15.8% (2023)
114 Ethiopia 14.9% (2023)
115 Bangladesh 14.5% (2023)
116 Lebanon 14.2% (2023)
117 Azerbaijan 14.1% (2023)
118 South Africa 14.0% (2023)
119 United Kingdom 13.3% (2023)
120 Morocco 12.9% (2023)
121 Haiti 12.3% (2023)
122 Uruguay 12.0% (2023)
123 Moldova 11.7% (2023)
124 Armenia 11.6% (2023)
125 Ireland 11.5% (2023)
126 S. Sudan 11.3% (2023)
127 Rwanda 11.3% (2023)
128 Netherlands 11.1% (2023)
129 Uganda 11.0% (2023)
130 Mali 10.9% (2023)
131 Burundi 10.9% (2023)
132 Argentina 10.3% (2023)
133 Sudan 9.6% (2023)
134 Somalia 9.2% (2023)
135 Mongolia 9.1% (2023)
136 Turkmenistan 8.8% (2023)
137 Eritrea 8.6% (2023)
138 Uzbekistan 8.5% (2023)
139 Côte d'Ivoire 7.9% (2023)
140 Namibia 7.8% (2023)
141 Kyrgyzstan 7.1% (2023)
142 Iran 6.6% (2023)
143 Israel 6.5% (2023)
144 Kenya 6.2% (2023)
145 Pakistan 4.7% (2023)
146 Tunisia 4.6% (2023)
147 United Arab Emirates 4.5% (2023)
148 Chad 3.2% (2023)
149 Tajikistan 3.1% (2023)
150 Syria 2.8% (2023)
151 Iraq 1.9% (2023)
152 Afghanistan 1.9% (2023)
153 Palestine 1.7% (2023)
154 Kazakhstan 1.3% (2023)
155 Lesotho 1.1% (2023)
156 Jordan 1.1% (2023)
157 Yemen 1.0% (2023)
158 Algeria 0.8% (2023)
159 Niger 0.8% (2023)
160 Iceland 0.5% (2023)
161 Saudi Arabia 0.5% (2023)
162 Kuwait 0.4% (2023)
163 Mauritania 0.3% (2023)
164 Djibouti 0.3% (2023)
165 Libya 0.1% (2023)
166 Egypt 0.0% (2023)
167 Oman 0.0% (2023)
168 Greenland 0.0% (2023)
169 Qatar 0.0% (2023)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 32.4% — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).