Forest cover by country
Share of the land covered by forest. The map opens on 2023, with figures for 213 countries.
Highest in 2023
- Suriname 94.4%
- Micronesia 92.2%
- Gabon 91.2%
- Palau 90.5%
- Solomon Is. 90.1%
Lowest in 2023
About the data
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.
- Unit
- % of land area
- Years
- 1990–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- World Bank
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- World Bank, World Development Indicators (AG.LND.FRST.ZS), CC BY 4.0
All countries
- Afghanistan 1.9% (2023)
- Albania 28.8% (2023)
- Algeria 0.8% (2023)
- American Samoa 85.2% (2023)
- Andorra 34.0% (2023)
- Angola 52.1% (2023)
- Antigua and Barb. 18.0% (2023)
- Argentina 10.3% (2023)
- Armenia 11.6% (2023)
- Aruba 2.3% (2023)
- Australia 17.4% (2023)
- Austria 47.2% (2023)
- Azerbaijan 14.1% (2023)
- Bahamas 50.9% (2023)
- Bahrain 1.0% (2023)
- Bangladesh 14.5% (2023)
- Barbados 14.7% (2023)
- Belarus 43.4% (2023)
- Belgium 22.6% (2023)
- Belize 54.5% (2023)
- Benin 26.5% (2023)
- Bermuda 18.5% (2023)
- Bhutan 71.6% (2023)
- Bolivia 46.3% (2023)
- Bosnia and Herz. 42.7% (2023)
- Botswana 26.3% (2023)
- Brazil 59.0% (2023)
- British Virgin Is. 24.1% (2023)
- Brunei 72.1% (2023)
- Bulgaria 36.2% (2023)
- Burkina Faso 22.2% (2023)
- Burundi 10.9% (2023)
- Cabo Verde 11.6% (2023)
- Cambodia 43.1% (2023)
- Cameroon 42.7% (2023)
- Canada 39.5% (2023)
- Cayman Is. 52.5% (2023)
- Central African Rep. 35.7% (2023)
- Chad 3.2% (2023)
- Chile 25.0% (2023)
- China 24.0% (2023)
- Colombia 52.8% (2023)
- Comoros 17.0% (2023)
- Congo 64.1% (2023)
- Costa Rica 60.4% (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire 7.9% (2023)
- Croatia 34.8% (2023)
- Cuba 31.2% (2023)
- Curaçao 0.2% (2023)
- Cyprus 18.7% (2023)
- Czechia 34.8% (2023)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 54.2% (2023)
- Denmark 15.8% (2023)
- Djibouti 0.3% (2023)
- Dominica 63.8% (2023)
- Dominican Rep. 45.0% (2023)
- Ecuador 49.5% (2023)
- Egypt 0.0% (2023)
- El Salvador 27.5% (2023)
- Eq. Guinea 86.4% (2023)
- Eritrea 8.6% (2023)
- Estonia 57.1% (2023)
- eSwatini 29.1% (2023)
- Ethiopia 14.9% (2023)
- Faeroe Is. 0.1% (2023)
- Fiji 63.5% (2023)
- Finland 73.7% (2023)
- Fr. Polynesia 43.1% (2023)
- France 32.5% (2023)
- Gabon 91.2% (2023)
- Gambia 22.3% (2023)
- Georgia 40.6% (2023)
- Germany 32.7% (2023)
- Ghana 35.2% (2023)
- Gibraltar 0.0% (2023)
- Greece 30.3% (2023)
- Greenland 0.0% (2023)
- Grenada 52.1% (2023)
- Guam 51.9% (2023)
- Guatemala 32.6% (2023)
- Guinea 24.7% (2023)
- Guinea-Bissau 69.5% (2023)
- Guyana 87.1% (2023)
- Haiti 12.3% (2023)
- Honduras 56.3% (2023)
- Hungary 22.4% (2023)
- Iceland 0.5% (2023)
- India 24.5% (2023)
- Indonesia 47.7% (2023)
- Iran 6.6% (2023)
- Iraq 1.9% (2023)
- Ireland 11.5% (2023)
- Isle of Man 6.1% (2023)
- Israel 6.5% (2023)
- Italy 32.9% (2023)
- Jamaica 56.2% (2023)
- Japan 68.4% (2023)
- Jordan 1.1% (2023)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 1.7% (2023)
- Kazakhstan 1.3% (2023)
- Kenya 6.2% (2023)
- Kiribati 1.5% (2023)
- Kuwait 0.4% (2023)
- Kyrgyzstan 7.1% (2023)
- Laos 71.5% (2023)
- Latvia 55.0% (2023)
- Lebanon 14.2% (2023)
- Lesotho 1.1% (2023)
- Liberia 78.1% (2023)
- Libya 0.1% (2023)
- Liechtenstein 41.9% (2023)
- Lithuania 35.2% (2023)
- Luxembourg 34.5% (2023)
- Madagascar 21.3% (2023)
- Malawi 22.4% (2023)
- Malaysia 57.7% (2023)
- Maldives 2.8% (2023)
- Mali 10.9% (2023)
- Malta 1.4% (2023)
- Marshall Is. 52.2% (2023)
- Mauritania 0.3% (2023)
- Mauritius 19.5% (2023)
- Mexico 33.6% (2023)
- Micronesia 92.2% (2023)
- Moldova 11.7% (2023)
- Monaco 0.0% (2023)
- Mongolia 9.1% (2023)
- Montenegro 61.5% (2023)
- Morocco 12.9% (2023)
- Mozambique 45.8% (2023)
- Myanmar 42.4% (2023)
- N. Mariana Is. 53.0% (2023)
- Namibia 7.8% (2023)
- Nauru 0.0% (2023)
- Nepal 41.6% (2023)
- Netherlands 11.1% (2023)
- New Caledonia 45.8% (2023)
- New Zealand 37.8% (2023)
- Nicaragua 25.8% (2023)
- Niger 0.8% (2023)
- Nigeria 23.2% (2023)
- North Korea 49.6% (2023)
- North Macedonia 39.7% (2023)
- Norway 33.5% (2023)
- Oman 0.0% (2023)
- Pakistan 4.7% (2023)
- Palau 90.5% (2023)
- Panama 56.3% (2023)
- Papua New Guinea 79.0% (2023)
- Paraguay 38.5% (2023)
- Peru 56.1% (2023)
- Philippines 24.5% (2023)
- Poland 31.1% (2023)
- Portugal 36.2% (2023)
- Puerto Rico 56.1% (2023)
- Qatar 0.0% (2023)
- Romania 30.1% (2023)
- Russia 49.8% (2023)
- Rwanda 11.3% (2023)
- S. Sudan 11.3% (2023)
- Saint Lucia 34.0% (2023)
- Samoa 57.6% (2023)
- San Marino 16.7% (2023)
- São Tomé and Principe 52.1% (2023)
- Saudi Arabia 0.5% (2023)
- Senegal 41.3% (2023)
- Serbia 32.4% (2023)
- Seychelles 73.3% (2023)
- Sierra Leone 34.3% (2023)
- Singapore 20.9% (2023)
- Sint Maarten 10.9% (2023)
- Slovakia 40.1% (2023)
- Slovenia 61.2% (2023)
- Solomon Is. 90.1% (2023)
- Somalia 9.2% (2023)
- South Africa 14.0% (2023)
- South Korea 64.1% (2023)
- Spain 37.2% (2023)
- Sri Lanka 34.0% (2023)
- St-Martin 24.8% (2023)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 42.3% (2023)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 73.2% (2023)
- Sudan 9.6% (2023)
- Suriname 94.4% (2023)
- Sweden 68.7% (2023)
- Switzerland 32.4% (2023)
- Syria 2.8% (2023)
- Tajikistan 3.1% (2023)
- Tanzania 50.1% (2023)
- Thailand 38.7% (2023)
- Timor-Leste 61.7% (2023)
- Togo 22.1% (2023)
- Tonga 12.4% (2023)
- Trinidad and Tobago 44.2% (2023)
- Tunisia 4.6% (2023)
- Turkey 29.5% (2023)
- Turkmenistan 8.8% (2023)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 11.1% (2023)
- Tuvalu 33.3% (2023)
- U.S. Virgin Is. 58.2% (2023)
- Uganda 11.0% (2023)
- Ukraine 16.8% (2023)
- United Arab Emirates 4.5% (2023)
- United Kingdom 13.3% (2023)
- United States of America 33.9% (2023)
- Uruguay 12.0% (2023)
- Uzbekistan 8.5% (2023)
- Vanuatu 36.3% (2023)
- Venezuela 52.2% (2023)
- Vietnam 47.4% (2023)
- Yemen 1.0% (2023)
- Zambia 59.5% (2023)
- Zimbabwe 44.7% (2023)