Laos vs Mongolia: Forest area

Laos
13.04 million hectares
in 2025
Mongolia
14.18 million hectares
in 2025
Laos rank
46th
Mongolia rank
44th

Forest area over time

  • Laos
  • Mongolia
05.0M10.0M15.0M199020072025

How they compare

Mongolia currently reports 14.18 million hectares against 13.04 million hectares in Laos, a difference of 1.14 million hectares.

That makes Mongolia's figure about 1.1 times Laos's.

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

Laos ranks 46th and Mongolia ranks 44th of 235 countries.

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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

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.