Ethiopia vs Sweden: Forest area

Ethiopia

26.75 million hectares

in 2025

Sweden

27.93 million hectares

in 2025

Ethiopia rank

24th

Sweden rank

22nd

Forest area over time

Ethiopia
Sweden

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 27.93 million hectares against 26.75 million hectares in Ethiopia, a difference of 1.19 million hectares.

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

Ethiopia ranks 24th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Ethiopia
Forest area in Sweden
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.