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WORLD STATISTICS

Environment

Forest area (% of land area)

percent of land area. Produced by FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment.
Indicator code
AG.LND.FRST.ZS
Unit
percent of land area
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0

World trend

1992 – 2023

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 2Suriname92%2024
  2. 3Gabon91%2024
  3. 4Palau91%2024
  4. 6Guyana87%2024
  5. 9Dominica76%2024

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 214Monaco0.00%2023
  2. 213Naoero0.00%2023
  3. 212Gibraltar0.00%2023
  4. 211Greenland0.00%2024
  5. 210Egypt, Arab Rep.0.00%2024
  6. 209Oman0.01%2024
  7. 208Faroe Islands0.06%2024
  8. 207Libya0.12%2024
  9. 206Qatar0.12%2024
  10. 205Curacao0.16%2024

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.