Forest Area (% of Land Area) Rankings by Country: Africa, 2023
Forest area as a share of total land area.
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| 1 | Gabon | 91.2% | ||
| 2 | Equatorial Guinea | 86.4% | ||
| 3 | Liberia | 78.1% | ||
| 4 | Seychelles | 73.3% | ||
| 5 | Guinea-Bissau | 69.5% | ||
| 6 | Republic of the Congo | 64.1% | ||
| 7 | Zambia | 59.5% | ||
| 8 | DR Congo | 54.2% | ||
| 9 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 52.1% | ||
| 10 | Angola | 52.1% | ||
| 11 | Tanzania | 50.1% | ||
| 12 | Mozambique | 45.8% | ||
| 13 | Zimbabwe | 44.7% | ||
| 14 | Cameroon | 42.7% | ||
| 15 | Senegal | 41.3% | ||
| 16 | Central African Republic | 35.7% | ||
| 17 | Ghana | 35.2% | ||
| 18 | Sierra Leone | 34.3% | ||
| 19 | Eswatini | 29.1% | ||
| 20 | Benin | 26.5% | ||
| 21 | Botswana | 26.3% | ||
| 22 | Guinea | 24.7% | ||
| 23 | Nigeria | 23.2% | ||
| 24 | Malawi | 22.4% | ||
| 25 | Gambia | 22.3% | ||
| 26 | Burkina Faso | 22.2% | ||
| 27 | Togo | 22.1% | ||
| 28 | Madagascar | 21.3% | ||
| 29 | Mauritius | 19.5% | ||
| 30 | Comoros | 17% | ||
| 31 | Ethiopia | 14.9% | ||
| 32 | South Africa | 14% | ||
| 33 | Morocco | 12.9% | ||
| 34 | Cabo Verde | 11.6% | ||
| 35 | South Sudan | 11.3% | ||
| 36 | Rwanda | 11.3% | ||
| 37 | Uganda | 11% | ||
| 38 | Mali | 10.9% | ||
| 39 | Burundi | 10.9% | ||
| 40 | Sudan | 9.6% | ||
| 41 | Somalia | 9.2% | ||
| 42 | Eritrea | 8.6% | ||
| 43 | Côte d’Ivoire | 7.9% | ||
| 44 | Namibia | 7.8% | ||
| 45 | Kenya | 6.2% | ||
| 46 | Tunisia | 4.6% | ||
| 47 | Chad | 3.2% | ||
| 48 | Lesotho | 1.1% | ||
| 49 | Algeria | 0.8% | ||
| 50 | Niger | 0.8% | ||
| 51 | Mauritania | 0.3% | ||
| 52 | Djibouti | 0.3% | ||
| 53 | Libya | 0.1% | ||
| 54 | Egypt | 0% |
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