Brazil vs Russia: Forest area

Brazil

486.09 million hectares

in 2025

Russia

832.63 million hectares

in 2025

Brazil rank

2nd

Russia rank

1st

Forest area over time

Brazil
Russia

How they compare

Russia currently reports 832.63 million hectares against 486.09 million hectares in Brazil, a difference of 346.54 million hectares.

That makes Russia's figure about 1.7 times Brazil's.

Across all 36 years both countries report, Russia has been ahead every year.

Brazil ranks 2nd and Russia ranks 1st of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Brazil
Forest area in Russia
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.