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Forest area (% of land area)

For 2023, Forest area (% of land area) is led by Suriname at 94.45%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 213
Snapshot year 2023
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0.023.647.270.894.4SurinameSuriname: 94.45%94.4Micronesia, Fed. Sts.Micronesia, Fed. Sts.: 92.16%92.2GabonGabon: 91.18%91.2PalauPalau: 90.54%90.5Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands: 90.06%90.1GuyanaGuyana: 87.09%87.1Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea: 86.39%86.4American SamoaAmerican Samoa: 85.20%85.2Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea: 78.95%79.0LiberiaLiberia: 78.14%78.1FinlandFinland: 73.72%73.7SeychellesSeychelles: 73.26%73.3
Rank Country Value
51 Bahamas, The 50.94%
52 Tanzania 50.05%
53 Russian Federation 49.78%
54 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 49.55%
55 Ecuador 49.55%
56 Indonesia 47.72%
57 Viet Nam 47.45%
58 Austria 47.24%
59 Bolivia 46.35%
60 New Caledonia 45.83%
61 Mozambique 45.81%
62 Dominican Republic 44.99%
63 Zimbabwe 44.74%
64 Trinidad and Tobago 44.24%
65 Belarus 43.41%
66 Cambodia 43.06%
67 French Polynesia 43.06%
68 Bosnia and Herzegovina 42.73%
69 Cameroon 42.67%
70 Myanmar 42.40%
71 St. Kitts and Nevis 42.31%
72 Liechtenstein 41.88%
73 Nepal 41.59%
74 Senegal 41.28%
75 Georgia 40.62%
76 Slovak Republic 40.06%
77 North Macedonia 39.71%
78 Canada 39.46%
79 Thailand 38.69%
80 Paraguay 38.54%
81 New Zealand 37.79%
82 Spain 37.19%
83 Vanuatu 36.28%
84 Bulgaria 36.22%
85 Portugal 36.15%
86 Central African Republic 35.66%
87 Lithuania 35.23%
88 Ghana 35.19%
89 Croatia 34.79%
90 Czechia 34.76%
91 Luxembourg 34.45%
92 Sierra Leone 34.30%
93 St. Lucia 34.05%
94 Andorra 34.04%
95 Sri Lanka 34.00%
96 United States 33.87%
97 Mexico 33.60%
98 Norway 33.50%
99 Tuvalu 33.33%
100 Italy 32.89%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Suriname sits at the top of the Forest area (% of land area) distribution in 2023 at 94.45%, with a lead of 2.29% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Poland at 31.08%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Qatar (0.00%), and the page currently covers 213 countries.