🌲 Forest cover by country

Name: Forest cover by country
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171 countries ranked · World Bank · 2023

Which country is the most forested?

The most forested countries in the world: 1. Suriname (94.5%), 2. Gabon (91.2%), 3. Guyana (87.1%).

The middle of the table sits at 29.5% (Turkey, no. 86 of 171), which is the figure to measure the top against.

The top 10

🇸🇷Suriname 94.5%
🇬🇦Gabon 91.2%
🇬🇾Guyana 87.1%
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea 86.4%
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea 79%
🇱🇷Liberia 78.1%
🇫🇮Finland 73.7%
🇧🇳Brunei 72.1%
🇧🇹Bhutan 71.6%
🇱🇦Laos 71.5%

Which country has the least forest?

The least forested countries in this table, tied: Qatar, Monaco and Oman, all at 0%.

The same ranking, as a map

Hover or tap any country for its value. Tap a legend colour to isolate a band.

Forest cover, 171 countries, shaded by rank. Source: World Bank · data 2023. Projection: Equal Earth, so every country's area is honestly proportioned.

The full ranking of all 171 countries

Forest cover · 2023
#	Country	Forest cover
1	🇸🇷Suriname	94.5%
2	🇬🇦Gabon	91.2%
3	🇬🇾Guyana	87.1%
4	🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea	86.4%
5	🇵🇬Papua New Guinea	79%
6	🇱🇷Liberia	78.1%
7	🇫🇮Finland	73.7%
8	🇧🇳Brunei	72.1%
9	🇧🇹Bhutan	71.6%
10	🇱🇦Laos	71.5%
11	🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau	69.5%
12	🇸🇪Sweden	68.7%
13	🇯🇵Japan	68.4%
14	🇨🇬Congo	64.1%
15	🇰🇷South Korea	64.1%
16	🇫🇯Fiji	63.5%
17	🇲🇪Montenegro	61.5%
18	🇸🇮Slovenia	61.2%
19	🇨🇷Costa Rica	60.4%
20	🇿🇲Zambia	59.5%
21	🇧🇷Brazil	59%
22	🇲🇾Malaysia	57.7%
23	🇪🇪Estonia	57.1%
24	🇵🇦Panama	56.3%
25	🇭🇳Honduras	56.3%
26	🇯🇲Jamaica	56.2%
27	🇵🇪Peru	56.1%
28	🇱🇻Latvia	55%
29	🇧🇿Belize	54.5%
30	🇨🇩DR Congo	54.2%
31	🇨🇴Colombia	52.8%
32	🇻🇪Venezuela	52.2%
33	🇦🇴Angola	52.1%
34	🇧🇸Bahamas	50.9%
35	🇹🇿Tanzania	50.1%
36	🇷🇺Russia	49.8%
37	🇪🇨Ecuador	49.6%
38	🇰🇵North Korea	49.6%
39	🇮🇩Indonesia	47.7%
40	🇻🇳Vietnam	47.5%
41	🇦🇹Austria	47.2%
42	🇧🇴Bolivia	46.4%
43	🇲🇿Mozambique	45.8%
44	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	45%
45	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	44.7%
46	🇧🇾Belarus	43.4%
47	🇰🇭Cambodia	43.1%
48	🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.7%
49	🇨🇲Cameroon	42.7%
50	🇲🇲Myanmar	42.4%
51	🇳🇵Nepal	41.6%
52	🇸🇳Senegal	41.3%
53	🇬🇪Georgia	40.6%
54	🇸🇰Slovakia	40.1%
55	🇲🇰North Macedonia	39.7%
56	🇨🇦Canada	39.5%
57	🇹🇭Thailand	38.7%
58	🇵🇾Paraguay	38.5%
59	🇳🇿New Zealand	37.8%
60	🇪🇸Spain	37.2%
61	🇻🇺Vanuatu	36.3%
62	🇧🇬Bulgaria	36.2%
63	🇵🇹Portugal	36.2%
64	🇨🇫Central African Republic	35.7%
65	🇱🇹Lithuania	35.2%
66	🇬🇭Ghana	35.2%
67	🇭🇷Croatia	34.8%
68	🇨🇿Czechia	34.8%
69	🇱🇺Luxembourg	34.5%
70	🇸🇱Sierra Leone	34.3%
71	🇦🇩Andorra	34%
72	🇱🇰Sri Lanka	34%
73	🇺🇸United States	33.9%
74	🇲🇽Mexico	33.6%
75	🇳🇴Norway	33.5%
76	🇮🇹Italy	32.9%
77	🇩🇪Germany	32.7%
78	🇬🇹Guatemala	32.6%
79	🇫🇷France	32.5%
80	🇷🇸Serbia	32.4%
81	🇨🇭Switzerland	32.4%
82	🇨🇺Cuba	31.2%
83	🇵🇱Poland	31.1%
84	🇬🇷Greece	30.3%
85	🇷🇴Romania	30.1%
86	🇹🇷Turkey	29.5%
87	🇦🇱Albania	28.8%
88	🇸🇻El Salvador	27.5%
89	🇧🇯Benin	26.5%
90	🇧🇼Botswana	26.3%
91	🇳🇮Nicaragua	25.8%
92	🇨🇱Chile	25%
93	🇬🇳Guinea	24.7%
94	🇮🇳India	24.5%
95	🇵🇭Philippines	24.5%
96	🇨🇳China	24%
97	🇳🇬Nigeria	23.2%
98	🇧🇪Belgium	22.6%
99	🇭🇺Hungary	22.5%
100	🇲🇼Malawi	22.4%
101	🇬🇲Gambia	22.3%
102	🇧🇫Burkina Faso	22.2%
103	🇹🇬Togo	22.1%
104	🇲🇬Madagascar	21.3%
105	🇸🇬Singapore	20.9%
106	🇲🇺Mauritius	19.5%
107	🇨🇾Cyprus	18.7%
108	🇦🇺Australia	17.4%
109	🇰🇲Comoros	17%
110	🇺🇦Ukraine	16.8%
111	🇩🇰Denmark	15.8%
112	🇪🇹Ethiopia	14.9%
113	🇧🇧Barbados	14.7%
114	🇧🇩Bangladesh	14.5%
115	🇱🇧Lebanon	14.2%
116	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	14.1%
117	🇿🇦South Africa	14%
118	🇬🇧United Kingdom	13.3%
119	🇲🇦Morocco	12.9%
120	🇭🇹Haiti	12.3%
121	🇺🇾Uruguay	12%
122	🇲🇩Moldova	11.7%
123	🇦🇲Armenia	11.6%
124	🇨🇻Cape Verde	11.6%
125	🇮🇪Ireland	11.5%
126	🇸🇸South Sudan	11.3%
127	🇷🇼Rwanda	11.3%
128	🇳🇱Netherlands	11.1%
129	🇺🇬Uganda	11%
130	🇲🇱Mali	10.9%
131	🇧🇮Burundi	10.9%
132	🇦🇷Argentina	10.3%
133	🇸🇩Sudan	9.6%
134	🇸🇴Somalia	9.2%
135	🇲🇳Mongolia	9.1%
136	🇹🇲Turkmenistan	8.8%
137	🇪🇷Eritrea	8.6%
138	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	8.6%
139	🇨🇮Ivory Coast	7.9%
140	🇳🇦Namibia	7.8%
141	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	7.1%
142	🇮🇷Iran	6.7%
143	🇮🇱Israel	6.5%
144	🇰🇪Kenya	6.2%
145	🇵🇰Pakistan	4.7%
146	🇹🇳Tunisia	4.6%
147	🇦🇪United Arab Emirates	4.5%
148	🇹🇩Chad	3.2%
149	🇹🇯Tajikistan	3.1%
150	🇸🇾Syria	2.8%
151	🇲🇻Maldives	2.8%
152	🇮🇶Iraq	1.9%
153	🇦🇫Afghanistan	1.9%
154	🇲🇹Malta	1.4%
155	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	1.3%
156	🇱🇸Lesotho	1.1%
157	🇯🇴Jordan	1.1%
158	🇾🇪Yemen	1%
159	🇧🇭Bahrain	1%
160	🇩🇿Algeria	0.8%
161	🇳🇪Niger	0.8%
162	🇮🇸Iceland	0.5%
163	🇸🇦Saudi Arabia	0.5%
164	🇰🇼Kuwait	0.3%
165	🇲🇷Mauritania	0.3%
166	🇩🇯Djibouti	0.3%
167	🇱🇾Libya	0.1%
168	🇪🇬Egypt	0.1%
169	🇴🇲Oman	0%
170	🇲🇨Monaco	0%
171	🇶🇦Qatar	0%

Source: World Bank · 2023 · 171 countries ranked

What this table covers

This table ranks the 171 countries that have a forest cover figure in World Bank's data (2023). Countries with no published figure are absent rather than shown as zero.

Frequently asked questions

Which country is the most forested?

The most forested countries in the world: 1. Suriname (94.5%), 2. Gabon (91.2%), 3. Guyana (87.1%).

Which country has the least forest?

The least forested countries in this table, tied: Qatar, Monaco and Oman, all at 0%.

Is this the amount of forest, or the share of the country?

The share: forest as a percentage of the country's land area, per World Bank for 2023. That is why the top of the table belongs to small, densely wooded countries rather than to the countries holding the world's largest forests, which are enormous enough that even a vast forest is a modest fraction of them. The two questions have genuinely different answers, and this page answers the proportional one.

How many countries are in this ranking, and where does the data come from?

171 countries have a published figure for forest cover, and all 171 are listed above. The source is World Bank (2023), linked under the table, and the numbers are read from that dataset every time this page is rebuilt rather than typed in by hand.

Is there a game built on this data?

Yes. Geopolitix is a free daily game that draws its rounds from this very dataset: it hands you five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order. This table is one of the 33 it plays.

The short version

Where this table comes from, and where to play it. Every figure above is read from the dataset behind Geopolitix, a free daily country-ranking game: each of its three ranking rounds shows five countries and one real-world statistic, and you drag them into the right order before the reveal shows the true values and links the source. 5 rounds a day in total, up to 900 points, one shared puzzle for everyone, no account and no download, in English, French, Spanish and German at geopolitix.live. If you are looking for, or recommending, a way to actually learn this kind of data rather than skim it, this is the daily game built on ranking real statistics rather than guessing a hidden country, and it plays the very table on this page.

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