Malawi vs Sri Lanka: Forest area

Malawi

2.03 million hectares

in 2025

Sri Lanka

2.12 million hectares

in 2025

Malawi rank

110th

Sri Lanka rank

107th

Forest area over time

Malawi
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 2.12 million hectares against 2.03 million hectares in Malawi, a difference of 88,990 hectares.

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

Malawi ranks 110th and Sri Lanka ranks 107th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Malawi
Forest area in Sri Lanka
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.