Bahrain vs Iceland: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Bahrain

11.0%

in 2025

Iceland

1.6%

in 2025

Bahrain rank

1st

Iceland rank

4th

Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area over time

Bahrain currently reports 11.0% against 1.6% in Iceland, a difference of 9.4%.

That makes Bahrain's figure about 7.0 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Iceland ahead.

Bahrain ranks 1st and Iceland ranks 4th of 228 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area
Unit: %
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 228 places, 7,980 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.