Forest Cover by Country

World Bank 2021 · 194 countries

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Percentage of land covered by forest

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194 countries

Forest Cover by country
1	Suriname	94.5%
2	Micronesia	92.1%
3	Gabon	91.2%
4	Palau	90.4%
5	Solomon Islands	90.1%
6	Guyana	87.1%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.7%
8	Papua New Guinea	79.0%
9	Liberia	78.5%
10	Finland	73.7%
11	Seychelles	73.3%
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.2%
13	Brunei	72.1%
14	Laos	71.6%
15	Bhutan	71.6%
16	Guinea-Bissau	69.8%
17	Sweden	68.7%
18	Japan	68.4%
19	South Korea	64.2%
20	Republic of the Congo	64.2%
21	Dominica	63.8%
22	Fiji	63.1%
23	Timor-Leste	61.8%
24	Montenegro	61.5%
25	Slovenia	61.3%
26	Costa Rica	60.1%
27	Zambia	59.8%
28	Brazil	59.1%
29	Malaysia	57.9%
30	Samoa	57.8%
31	Estonia	57.1%
32	Panama	56.5%
33	Honduras	56.5%
34	Peru	56.2%
35	Jamaica	55.8%
36	Belize	55.0%
37	Latvia	54.9%
38	DR Congo	54.7%
39	Colombia	52.9%
40	São Tomé and Príncipe	52.8%
41	Angola	52.5%
42	Venezuela	52.3%
43	Marshall Islands	52.2%
44	Grenada	52.1%
45	Bahamas	50.9%
46	Tanzania	50.6%
47	Ecuador	49.8%
48	Russia	49.8%
49	North Korea	49.7%
50	Indonesia	48.0%
51	Austria	47.2%
52	Vietnam	47.2%
53	Bolivia	46.5%
54	Mozambique	46.1%
55	Zimbabwe	44.9%
56	Dominican Republic	44.8%
57	Trinidad and Tobago	44.3%
58	Cambodia	43.9%
59	Belarus	43.3%
60	Myanmar	42.8%
61	Cameroon	42.8%
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.7%
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.3%
64	Liechtenstein	41.9%
65	Nepal	41.6%
66	Senegal	41.5%
67	Georgia	40.6%
68	Slovakia	40.1%
69	North Macedonia	39.7%
70	Canada	39.5%
71	Paraguay	39.3%
72	Thailand	38.8%
73	New Zealand	37.7%
74	Spain	37.2%
75	Vanuatu	36.3%
76	Portugal	36.2%
77	Bulgaria	36.1%
78	Central African Republic	35.7%
79	Lithuania	35.2%
80	Ghana	35.2%
81	Croatia	34.7%
82	Czechia	34.7%
83	Sierra Leone	34.6%
84	Luxembourg	34.5%
85	Sri Lanka	34.1%
86	Saint Lucia	34.0%
87	Andorra	34.0%
88	United States	33.9%
89	Mexico	33.7%
90	Norway	33.5%
91	Tuvalu	33.3%
92	Italy	32.7%
93	Guatemala	32.7%
94	Germany	32.7%
95	Serbia	32.4%
96	France	32.3%
97	Switzerland	32.3%
98	Cuba	31.2%
99	Poland	31.1%
100	Greece	30.3%
101	Romania	30.1%
102	Turkey	29.3%
103	Eswatini	29.1%
104	Albania	28.8%
105	El Salvador	27.7%
106	Benin	26.9%
107	Nicaragua	26.7%
108	Botswana	26.5%
109	Guinea	24.9%
110	Chile	24.8%
111	India	24.4%
112	Philippines	24.3%
113	China	23.8%
114	Nigeria	23.4%
115	Malawi	22.9%
116	Gambia	22.8%
117	Belgium	22.6%
118	Hungary	22.5%
119	Burkina Faso	22.4%
120	Togo	22.1%
121	Madagascar	21.3%
122	Singapore	21.2%
123	Mauritius	19.5%
124	Cyprus	18.7%
125	Antigua and Barbuda	18.2%
126	Australia	17.4%
127	Comoros	17.2%
128	Ukraine	16.7%
129	San Marino	16.7%
130	Denmark	15.8%
131	Ethiopia	15.0%
132	Barbados	14.7%
133	Bangladesh	14.5%
134	Lebanon	14.1%
135	South Africa	14.0%
136	Azerbaijan	14.0%
137	United Kingdom	13.3%
138	Morocco	12.9%
139	Tonga	12.4%
140	Haiti	12.4%
141	Uruguay	11.8%
142	Moldova	11.8%
143	Armenia	11.6%
144	Cape Verde	11.5%
145	Ireland	11.5%
146	South Sudan	11.3%
147	Rwanda	11.3%
148	Uganda	11.2%
149	Netherlands	11.0%
150	Mali	10.9%
151	Burundi	10.9%
152	Argentina	10.4%
153	Sudan	9.6%
154	Somalia	9.3%
155	Mongolia	9.1%
156	Turkmenistan	8.8%
157	Eritrea	8.7%
158	Uzbekistan	8.5%
159	Ivory Coast	8.2%
160	Namibia	7.9%
161	Kyrgyzstan	7.0%
162	Iran	6.6%
163	Israel	6.5%
164	Kenya	6.2%
165	Pakistan	4.7%
166	Tunisia	4.5%
167	United Arab Emirates	4.5%
168	Chad	3.2%
169	Tajikistan	3.1%
170	Syria	2.8%
171	Maldives	2.7%
172	Iraq	1.9%
173	Afghanistan	1.9%
174	Palestine	1.7%
175	Kiribati	1.5%
176	Malta	1.4%
177	Kazakhstan	1.3%
178	Lesotho	1.1%
179	Jordan	1.1%
180	Yemen	1.0%
181	Bahrain	0.9%
182	Niger	0.8%
183	Algeria	0.8%
184	Iceland	0.5%
185	Saudi Arabia	0.5%
186	Kuwait	0.4%
187	Mauritania	0.3%
188	Djibouti	0.3%
189	Libya	0.1%
190	Egypt	0.0%
191	Oman	0.0%
192	Qatar	0.0%
193	Monaco	0.0%
194	Nauru	0.0%

94.5%1st · Suriname 92.1%2nd · Micronesia 91.2%3rd · Gabon

Source

World Bank · 2021 · 194/195 countries

Surprising positions

Palau ranks 4 of 194 for forest cover, and 192 of 195 for population.

Micronesia ranks 2 of 194 for forest cover, and 181 of 195 for population.

Egypt ranks 190 of 194 for forest cover, and 14 of 195 for population.

Method

The three largest gaps in relative ranking position, compared with population. Only sovereign countries with both values count. This describes position, not whether a country is better.

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