Botswana vs France: Share of global forest area

Botswana

0.4%

in 2025

France

0.4%

in 2025

Botswana rank

40th

France rank

38th

Share of global forest area over time

France currently reports 0.4% against 0.4% in Botswana, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

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

Botswana ranks 40th and France ranks 38th of 235 countries.

Indicator: Share of global forest area
Unit: %
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

Share of global forest area represents the proportion of a country's forest area relative to the total global forest area.