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Iceland
Forest area (% of land 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.

Global rank#199out of 213 countries
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Historical trend

0.50.40.30.30.2199020072023Iceland · 2023: 0.53%Iceland

Analytical takeaways

  • Iceland records 0.53% for Forest area (% of land area) in 2023, ranking #199 globally out of 213 countries.
  • Forest area (% of land area) increased from 0.17% in 1990 to 0.53% in 2023, a gain of 0.36%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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