New Caledonia vs Vanuatu: Forest area

New Caledonia

892,610 hectares

in 2025

Vanuatu

907,440 hectares

in 2025

New Caledonia rank

131st

Vanuatu rank

130th

Forest area over time

New Caledonia
Vanuatu

How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 907,440 hectares against 892,610 hectares in New Caledonia, a difference of 14,830 hectares.

Across all 36 years both countries report, Vanuatu has been ahead every year.

New Caledonia ranks 131st and Vanuatu ranks 130th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in New Caledonia
Forest area in Vanuatu
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.