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Papua New Guinea
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#9out of 213 countries
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Historical trend

80.480.079.779.379.0199020072023Papua New Guinea · 2023: 78.95%Papua New Guinea

Analytical takeaways

  • Papua New Guinea records 78.95% for Forest area (% of land area) in 2023, ranking #9 globally out of 213 countries.
  • Forest area (% of land area) declined from 80.38% in 1990 to 78.95% in 2023, a decrease of 1.42%.
  • 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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