Forest Area (% of Land Area) Rankings by Country: World, 2023

Showing: 213 (194 countries, 19 territories)

1	Suriname	94.4%
2	Federated States of Micronesia	92.2%
3	Gabon	91.2%
4	Palau	90.5%
5	Solomon Islands	90.1%
6	Guyana	87.1%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.4%
8	American Samoa	85.2%
9	Papua New Guinea	79%
10	Liberia	78.1%
11	Finland	73.7%
12	Seychelles	73.3%
13	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.2%
14	Brunei	72.1%
15	Bhutan	71.6%
16	Laos	71.5%
17	Guinea-Bissau	69.5%
18	Sweden	68.7%
19	Japan	68.4%
20	Republic of the Congo	64.1%
21	South Korea	64.1%
22	Dominica	63.8%
23	Fiji	63.5%
24	Timor-Leste	61.7%
25	Montenegro	61.5%
26	Slovenia	61.2%
27	Costa Rica	60.4%
28	Zambia	59.5%
29	Brazil	59%
30	U.S. Virgin Islands	58.2%
31	Malaysia	57.7%
32	Samoa	57.6%
33	Estonia	57.1%
34	Panama	56.3%
35	Honduras	56.3%
36	Jamaica	56.2%
37	Puerto Rico	56.1%
38	Peru	56.1%
39	Latvia	55%
40	Belize	54.5%
41	DR Congo	54.2%
42	Northern Mariana Islands	53%
43	Colombia	52.8%
44	Cayman Islands	52.5%
45	Venezuela	52.2%
46	Marshall Islands	52.2%
47	São Tomé and Príncipe	52.1%
48	Angola	52.1%
49	Grenada	52.1%
50	Guam	51.9%
51	Bahamas	50.9%
52	Tanzania	50.1%
53	Russia	49.8%
54	North Korea	49.6%
55	Ecuador	49.5%
56	Indonesia	47.7%
57	Vietnam	47.4%
58	Austria	47.2%
59	Bolivia	46.3%
60	New Caledonia	45.8%
61	Mozambique	45.8%
62	Dominican Republic	45%
63	Zimbabwe	44.7%
64	Trinidad and Tobago	44.2%
65	Belarus	43.4%
66	Cambodia	43.1%
67	French Polynesia	43.1%
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.7%
69	Cameroon	42.7%
70	Myanmar	42.4%
71	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.3%
72	Liechtenstein	41.9%
73	Nepal	41.6%
74	Senegal	41.3%
75	Georgia	40.6%
76	Slovakia	40.1%
77	North Macedonia	39.7%
78	Canada	39.5%
79	Thailand	38.7%
80	Paraguay	38.5%
81	New Zealand	37.8%
82	Spain	37.2%
83	Vanuatu	36.3%
84	Bulgaria	36.2%
85	Portugal	36.2%
86	Central African Republic	35.7%
87	Lithuania	35.2%
88	Ghana	35.2%
89	Croatia	34.8%
90	Czechia	34.8%
91	Luxembourg	34.5%
92	Sierra Leone	34.3%
93	Saint Lucia	34%
94	Andorra	34%
95	Sri Lanka	34%
96	United States	33.9%
97	Mexico	33.6%
98	Norway	33.5%
99	Tuvalu	33.3%
100	Italy	32.9%
101	Germany	32.7%
102	Guatemala	32.6%
103	France	32.5%
104	Serbia	32.4%
105	Switzerland	32.4%
106	Cuba	31.2%
107	Poland	31.1%
108	Greece	30.3%
109	Romania	30.1%
110	Türkiye	29.5%
111	Eswatini	29.1%
112	Albania	28.8%
113	El Salvador	27.5%
114	Benin	26.5%
115	Botswana	26.3%
116	Nicaragua	25.8%
117	Chile	25%
118	Saint Martin	24.8%
119	Guinea	24.7%
120	India	24.5%
121	Philippines	24.5%
122	British Virgin Islands	24.1%
123	China	24%
124	Nigeria	23.2%
125	Belgium	22.6%
126	Hungary	22.4%
127	Malawi	22.4%
128	Gambia	22.3%
129	Burkina Faso	22.2%
130	Togo	22.1%
131	Madagascar	21.3%
132	Singapore	20.9%
133	Mauritius	19.5%
134	Cyprus	18.7%
135	Bermuda	18.5%
136	Antigua and Barbuda	18%
137	Australia	17.4%
138	Comoros	17%
139	Ukraine	16.8%
140	San Marino	16.7%
141	Denmark	15.8%
142	Ethiopia	14.9%
143	Barbados	14.7%
144	Bangladesh	14.5%
145	Lebanon	14.2%
146	Azerbaijan	14.1%
147	South Africa	14%
148	United Kingdom	13.3%
149	Morocco	12.9%
150	Tonga	12.4%
151	Haiti	12.3%
152	Uruguay	12%
153	Moldova	11.7%
154	Armenia	11.6%
155	Cabo Verde	11.6%
156	Ireland	11.5%
157	South Sudan	11.3%
158	Rwanda	11.3%
159	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.1%
160	Netherlands	11.1%
161	Uganda	11%
162	Mali	10.9%
163	Burundi	10.9%
164	Sint Maarten	10.9%
165	Argentina	10.3%
166	Sudan	9.6%
167	Somalia	9.2%
168	Mongolia	9.1%
169	Turkmenistan	8.8%
170	Eritrea	8.6%
171	Uzbekistan	8.5%
172	Côte d’Ivoire	7.9%
173	Namibia	7.8%
174	Kyrgyzstan	7.1%
175	Iran	6.6%
176	Israel	6.5%
177	Kenya	6.2%
178	Isle of Man	6.1%
179	Pakistan	4.7%
180	Tunisia	4.6%
181	United Arab Emirates	4.5%
182	Chad	3.2%
183	Tajikistan	3.1%
184	Syria	2.8%
185	Maldives	2.8%
186	Aruba	2.3%
187	Iraq	1.9%
188	Afghanistan	1.9%
189	Palestine	1.7%
190	Kiribati	1.5%
191	Malta	1.4%
192	Kazakhstan	1.3%
193	Lesotho	1.1%
194	Jordan	1.1%
195	Yemen	1%
196	Bahrain	0.9%
197	Algeria	0.8%
198	Niger	0.8%
199	Iceland	0.5%
200	Saudi Arabia	0.5%
201	Kuwait	0.4%
202	Mauritania	0.3%
203	Djibouti	0.3%
204	Curaçao	0.2%
205	Libya	0.1%
206	Faroe Islands	0.1%
207	Egypt	0%
208	Oman	0%
209	Greenland	0%
210	Nauru	0%
211	Qatar	0%
212	Gibraltar	0%
213	Monaco	0%

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