List of countries by forest area

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Guiana Amazonian Park in French Guiana

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Forest covered area

This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area.

In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06 billion ha, which was 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person – although forests are not distributed equally among the world's people or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world's forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%).

Many of the world's forests are being damaged and degraded or are disappearing altogether. Their capacity to provide tangible goods, such as fiber, food, and medicines, as well as essential ecological services, including habitat for biodiversity, carbon storage, and moderation of freshwater flows, is under greater threat than ever before.Template:Obsolete sourceAccording to World Resource Institute in Washington, between 2000 and 2020 the world lost 101 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover, mostly tropical and subtropical forests (92%). The FAO is compiling a new global assessment due to be published in 2025.

Planet, continents and regions

All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares (approximately ). Source: Food and Agriculture Organization

Region	1990		2000		2010		2020
	ha	acre	ha	acre	ha	acre	ha	acre
World
Asia (including Russia)
South America
North America and Central America
Africa
Europe (excluding Russia)
Oceania

Countries and territories

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Russia has more total forested land than any other country

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Share of global forest in each country

Data are for the year 2022 and are from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Location	Land		Forest		%forest
	km2	sq mi	km2	sq mi
World			30.6%
French Guiana			96.6%
Suriname			94.5%
Guyana			93.5%
Template:Country data Micronesia			92.1%
Gabon			91.2%
Palau			90.4%
Solomon Islands			90.1%
Equatorial Guinea			86.7%
American Samoa			85.4%
Papua New Guinea			79.0%
Liberia			78.5%
Pitcairn			74.5%
Finland			73.7%
Seychelles			73.3%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines			73.2%
Niue			72.7%
Brunei			72.1%
Laos			71.6%
Bhutan			71.6%
Guinea-Bissau			69.8%
Sweden			68.7%
Japan			68.4%
Cook Islands			65.0%
South Korea			64.2%
Congo			64.2%
Dominica			63.8%
Fiji			63.1%
Timor-Leste			61.8%
Montenegro			61.5%
Slovenia			61.3%
Anguilla			61.1%
Costa Rica			60.1%
Zambia			59.8%
Brazil			59.1%
Malaysia			57.9%
Samoa			57.8%
Template:Country data US Virgin Islands			57.7%
Estonia			57.1%
Panama			56.5%
Honduras			56.5%
Peru			56.2%
Puerto Rico			56.1%
Jamaica			55.8%
Belize			55.0%
Latvia			54.9%
Democratic Republic of the Congo			54.7%
Northern Mariana Islands			53.0%
Colombia			52.9%
Sao Tome and Principe			52.8%
Cayman Islands			52.7%
Angola			52.5%
Venezuela			52.3%
Marshall Islands			52.2%
Grenada			52.1%
Guam			51.9%
Bahamas			50.9%
Tanzania			50.6%
Ecuador			49.8%
Russia			49.8%
North Korea			49.7%
Martinique			49.7%
Indonesia			48.0%
Austria			47.2%
Vietnam			47.2%
Bolivia			46.5%
Mozambique			46.1%
New Caledonia			45.8%
Zimbabwe			44.9%
Dominican Republic			44.8%
Guadeloupe			44.3%
Trinidad and Tobago			44.3%
Cambodia			43.9%
Belarus			43.3%
French Polynesia			43.1%
Myanmar			42.8%
Cameroon			42.8%
Bosnia and Herzegovina			42.7%
Saint Kitts and Nevis			42.3%
Liechtenstein			41.9%
Template:Country data Wallis and Futuna Islands			41.6%
Nepal			41.6%
Senegal			41.5%
Template:Country data Georgia			40.6%
Slovakia			40.1%
Template:Country data North Macedonia			39.7%
Réunion			39.6%
Canada			39.5%
Paraguay			39.3%
Thailand			38.8%
New Zealand			37.7%
Mayotte			37.7%
Spain			37.2%
Vanuatu			36.3%
Portugal			36.2%
Bulgaria			36.1%
Central African Republic			35.7%
Lithuania			35.2%
Ghana			35.2%
Croatia			34.7%
Czech Republic			34.7%
Sierra Leone			34.6%
Luxembourg			34.5%
Sri Lanka			34.1%
Saint Lucia			34.0%
Andorra			34.0%
United States			33.9%
Mexico			33.7%
Norway			33.5%
Tuvalu			33.3%
Italy			32.7%
Guatemala			32.7%
Germany			32.7%
Serbia			32.4%
Switzerland			32.3%
France			31.8%
Cuba			31.2%
Poland			31.1%
Greece			30.3%
Romania			30.1%
Turkey			29.3%
Eswatini			29.1%
Albania			28.8%
El Salvador			27.7%
Benin			26.9%
Nicaragua			26.7%
Botswana			26.5%
Montserrat			25.0%
Guinea			24.9%
Chile			24.8%
Saint Martin			24.8%
India			24.4%
Philippines			24.3%
British Virgin Islands			24.1%
China			23.8%
Nigeria			23.4%
Malawi			22.9%
Gambia			22.8%
Belgium			22.6%
Hungary			22.5%
Burkina Faso			22.4%
Togo			22.1%
Madagascar			21.3%
Singapore			21.2%
Mauritius			19.5%
Cyprus			18.7%
Bermuda			18.5%
Antigua and Barbuda			18.2%
Australia			17.4%
Comoros			17.2%
Ukraine			16.7%
San Marino			16.7%
Denmark			15.8%
Ethiopia			15.0%
Barbados			14.7%
Bangladesh			14.5%
Lebanon			14.1%
South Africa			14.0%
Azerbaijan			14.0%
United Kingdom			13.3%
Morocco			12.9%
Tonga			12.4%
Haiti			12.4%
Norfolk Island			12.3%
Uruguay			11.8%
Moldova			11.8%
Armenia			11.5%
Cape Verde			11.5%
Ireland			11.5%
South Sudan			11.3%
Rwanda			11.3%
Uganda			11.2%
Turks and Caicos Islands			11.1%
Netherlands			11.0%
Mali			10.9%
Burundi			10.9%
Sint Maarten			10.9%
Argentina			10.4%
Sudan			9.6%
Somalia			9.3%
Mongolia			9.1%
Turkmenistan			8.8%
Eritrea			8.7%
Saint Barthélemy			8.5%
Uzbekistan			8.5%
Ivory Coast			8.2%
Namibia			7.9%
Kyrgyzstan			7.0%
Iran			6.6%
Israel			6.5%
Kenya			6.3%
Isle of Man			6.1%
Template:Country data Caribbean Netherlands			5.9%
Template:Country data Channel Islands			5.2%
Saint Pierre and Miquelon			5.1%
Template:Country data Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha			5.1%
Pakistan			4.7%
Tunisia			4.5%
United Arab Emirates			4.5%
Chad			3.2%
Tajikistan			3.1%
Syria			2.8%
Maldives			2.7%
Western Sahara			2.5%
Aruba			2.3%
Iraq			1.9%
Afghanistan			1.9%
Template:Country data Palestine			1.7%
Kiribati			1.5%
Malta			1.4%
Kazakhstan			1.3%
Lesotho			1.1%
Jordan			1.1%
Yemen			1.0%
Bahrain			0.9%
Niger			0.8%
Algeria			0.8%
Iceland			0.5%
Saudi Arabia			0.5%
Kuwait			0.4%
Mauritania			0.3%
Djibouti			0.3%
Curaçao			0.2%
Libya			0.1%
Faroe Islands			0.1%
Egypt			0.0%
Oman			0.0%
Greenland			0.0%
Falkland Islands			0.0%
Gibraltar			0.0%
Vatican City			0.0%
Monaco			0.0%
Nauru			0.0%
Qatar			0.0%
Tokelau			0.0%

See also

• Deforestation by continent
• Forest cover by state and territory in the United States
• Forest cover by state in India
• Forest cover by federal subject in Russia
• Forest cover by province or territory in Canada
• Forest cover by state or territory in Australia
• Forest Landscape Integrity Index
• Forest restoration
• Reforestation

Sources

This article incorporates text from Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See c:File:Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 – Key findings.pdf. Template:OTRS ticket 2.

External links

• Global Forest Resources Assessment at FAO
• Forest data at FAO