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Liberia
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#10out of 213 countries
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Historical trend

88.585.983.380.778.1199020072023Liberia · 2023: 78.14%Liberia

Analytical takeaways

  • Liberia records 78.14% for Forest area (% of land area) in 2023, ranking #10 globally out of 213 countries.
  • Forest area (% of land area) declined from 88.51% in 1990 to 78.14% in 2023, a decrease of 10.37%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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