Iraq vs Ireland: Forest area

Iraq

692,550 hectares

in 2025

Ireland

832,850 hectares

in 2025

Iraq rank

134th

Ireland rank

132nd

Forest area over time

Iraq
Ireland

How they compare

Ireland currently reports 832,850 hectares against 692,550 hectares in Iraq, a difference of 140,300 hectares.

That makes Ireland's figure about 1.2 times Iraq's.

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

Iraq ranks 134th and Ireland ranks 132nd of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Iraq
Forest area in Ireland
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.