Papua New Guinea vs Tanzania: Share of global forest area

Papua New Guinea

0.8%

in 2025

Tanzania

1.0%

in 2025

Papua New Guinea rank

20th

Tanzania rank

19th

Share of global forest area over time

Tanzania currently reports 1.0% against 0.8% in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Tanzania's figure about 1.3 times Papua New Guinea's.

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

Papua New Guinea ranks 20th and Tanzania ranks 19th 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.