Paraguay vs Suriname: Forest area

Paraguay

14.30 million hectares

in 2025

Suriname

14.67 million hectares

in 2025

Paraguay rank

43rd

Suriname rank

42nd

Forest area over time

Paraguay
Suriname

How they compare

Suriname currently reports 14.67 million hectares against 14.30 million hectares in Paraguay, a difference of 376,800 hectares.

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

Paraguay ranks 43rd and Suriname ranks 42nd of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Paraguay
Forest area in Suriname
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.