India vs Peru: Forest area

India

72.74 million hectares

in 2025

Peru

67.16 million hectares

in 2025

India rank

9th

Peru rank

10th

Forest area over time

India
Peru

How they compare

India currently reports 72.74 million hectares against 67.16 million hectares in Peru, a difference of 5.58 million hectares.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Peru's.

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

India ranks 9th and Peru ranks 10th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in India
Forest area in Peru
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.