Belarus vs Italy: Forest area

Belarus

8.98 million hectares

in 2025

Italy

9.42 million hectares

in 2025

Belarus rank

57th

Italy rank

56th

Forest area over time

Belarus
Italy

How they compare

Italy currently reports 9.42 million hectares against 8.98 million hectares in Belarus, a difference of 446,560 hectares.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Belarus ahead.

Belarus ranks 57th and Italy ranks 56th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Belarus
Forest area in Italy
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Forest area
Unit: hectares
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: 235 places, 8,460 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems.