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15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Remaining moutain area; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value by country

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Countries reporting
141
Highest
690,055 km2
China, mainland
Lowest
0.1 km2
Mauritania
Median
2,806 km2
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
1,080

What the numbers show

15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Remaining moutain area; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value is currently reported for 141 countries. The highest value is 690,055 km2 in China, mainland; the lowest is 0.1 km2 in Mauritania.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,806 km2, and the mean is 32,896 km2.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 98 fell. The largest increase was in Niger (up 181.2%), and the largest decrease in Croatia (down 26.4%).

15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Remaining moutain area; Land: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China, mainland 690,055 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
2 Indonesia 500,753 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
3 Mexico 348,847 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
4 Myanmar 272,292 km2 2021 down 1.8% flat
5 India 240,148 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 150,273 km2 2021 down 3.3% flat
6 Colombia 181,936 km2 2021 down 2.1% flat
6 Viet Nam 114,260 km2 2021 down 2.9% falling
7 Papua New Guinea 173,795 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
8 Peru 170,895 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
9 Brazil 144,291 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
9 Timor-Leste 7,186 km2 2021 down 1.7% flat
10 Thailand 127,784 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
11 Ethiopia 126,387 km2 2021 down 3.5% flat
12 South Africa 95,277 km2 2021 down 8.0% falling
13 Malaysia 90,424 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
14 Philippines 90,158 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
15 Mozambique 89,305 km2 2021 down 9.1% falling
16 Madagascar 82,066 km2 2021 down 2.0% flat
17 Cameroon 69,591 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
18 Honduras 60,802 km2 2021 down 3.2% flat
19 Ecuador 55,235 km2 2021 down 1.4% flat
20 Angola 51,880 km2 2021 down 4.0% falling
21 Australia and New Zealand 47,586 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
22 Australia 47,460 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
23 Zambia 45,197 km2 2021 down 3.8% falling
24 Guinea 41,358 km2 2021 down 6.7% falling
25 Nepal 37,775 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
26 Guatemala 34,366 km2 2021 down 2.1% flat
27 Nigeria 31,015 km2 2021 down 2.3% flat
28 Zimbabwe 30,858 km2 2021 down 2.8% falling
29 Nicaragua 23,866 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
30 Panama 19,886 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
31 Guyana 18,466 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
32 Costa Rica 17,453 km2 2021 down 1.7% flat
33 Malawi 16,559 km2 2021 down 5.7% falling
34 Japan 16,210 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
35 Kenya 16,009 km2 2021 down 2.8% falling
36 Cambodia 15,298 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
37 South Sudan 14,545 km2 2021 down 2.8% flat
38 Dominican Republic 13,170 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
39 Republic of Korea 10,502 km2 2021 down 1.6% flat
40 Bhutan 10,437 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
41 Uganda 9,923 km2 2021 down 8.0% falling
42 Solomon Islands 9,076 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
43 Suriname 8,572 km2 2021 down 0.0% flat
44 El Salvador 8,468 km2 2021 down 3.4% falling
45 Gabon 8,367 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
46 Sri Lanka 8,173 km2 2021 down 4.5% falling
47 Spain 7,821 km2 2021 down 3.0% rising
48 Cuba 7,758 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
49 Pakistan 7,596 km2 2021 up 2.7% flat
50 Algeria 7,548 km2 2021 up 0.8% flat
51 New Caledonia 7,363 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
52 Haiti 7,288 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
53 Sierra Leone 6,286 km2 2021 down 3.7% flat
54 Central African Republic 5,520 km2 2021 down 2.4% flat
55 Eswatini 5,345 km2 2021 up 0.1% flat
56 Liberia 5,301 km2 2021 down 1.8% flat
57 Burundi 5,146 km2 2021 down 2.9% flat
58 Morocco 4,902 km2 2021 up 2.7% flat
59 Sudan 4,807 km2 2021 up 1.6% flat
60 Vanuatu 4,387 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
61 Ghana 4,214 km2 2021 down 2.2% flat
62 Jamaica 4,115 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
63 Congo 4,035 km2 2021 down 3.0% flat
64 Belize 3,451 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
65 Togo 3,437 km2 2021 down 2.8% flat
66 Equatorial Guinea 3,417 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
67 Fiji 3,060 km2 2021 down 2.1% flat
68 Chad 2,806 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
69 Rwanda 2,725 km2 2021 down 4.3% falling
70 Mali 2,574 km2 2021 down 2.4% flat
71 Italy 2,216 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
72 Puerto Rico 2,074 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
73 Greece 1,870 km2 2021 down 2.5% rising
74 Tunisia 1,328 km2 2021 down 3.0% flat
75 Bangladesh 1,293 km2 2021 down 3.3% flat
76 Portugal 1,108 km2 2021 down 18.4% falling
77 Paraguay 1,101 km2 2021 down 6.8% falling
78 Yemen 1,004 km2 2021 up 4.1% rising
79 Cyprus 974.4 km2 2021 down 2.5% flat
80 Chile 817.6 km2 2021 up 1.1% flat
81 Comoros 724.8 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
82 Lebanon 694.6 km2 2021 down 1.6% flat
83 Somalia 644.4 km2 2021 up 0.6% flat
84 Eritrea 638.7 km2 2021 up 14.7% rising
85 French Guiana 619.9 km2 2021 up 0.0% flat
86 Samoa 534.8 km2 2021 unchanged flat
87 French Polynesia 508.1 km2 2021 unchanged flat
88 Afghanistan 497.8 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
89 Brunei Darussalam 487.9 km2 2021 down 0.0% flat
90 Benin 348.3 km2 2021 down 2.3% flat
91 Guadeloupe 312.6 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
92 Kyrgyzstan 274.5 km2 2021 up 6.6% rising
93 Trinidad and Tobago 251.8 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
94 Senegal 225.9 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
95 Botswana 224.7 km2 2021 up 0.4% flat
96 Oman 192.4 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
97 Kazakhstan 177.8 km2 2021 up 6.0% flat
98 Iraq 171.9 km2 2021 up 17.8% rising
99 Libya 159.5 km2 2021 up 0.6% flat
100 Saudi Arabia 159.4 km2 2021 up 17.3% rising
101 Martinique 158 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
102 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 139.2 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
103 Uzbekistan 126.8 km2 2021 up 17.1% rising
104 New Zealand 124.5 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
105 Namibia 107 km2 2021 up 27.5% rising
106 Burkina Faso 106 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
107 China, Hong Kong SAR 96.3 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
108 Saint Lucia 91.3 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
109 Jordan 81.1 km2 2021 up 2.0% flat
110 Grenada 78.7 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
111 Tajikistan 76.7 km2 2021 up 7.4% rising
112 Palestine 50.5 km2 2021 up 18.0% rising
113 Lesotho 49.3 km2 2021 up 2.3% flat
114 France 44.3 km2 2021 up 3.0% rising
115 Mayotte 41.1 km2 2021 down 1.4% flat
116 Uruguay 32.3 km2 2021 up 1.6% rising
117 Montenegro 26.4 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
118 Turkmenistan 24.4 km2 2021 down 2.4% flat
119 Albania 24.1 km2 2021 down 7.7% falling
120 Russian Federation 23.3 km2 2021 up 0.9% flat
121 American Samoa 18.9 km2 2021 unchanged flat
122 Croatia 17.3 km2 2021 down 26.4% falling
123 Montserrat 16.6 km2 2021 up 3.8% flat
124 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 16.2 km2 2021 unchanged flat
125 Cook Islands 7.7 km2 2021 unchanged flat
126 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.2 km2 2021 up 2.0% rising
127 Niger 4.5 km2 2021 up 181.2% rising
127 Tonga 4.5 km2 2021 unchanged flat
129 Armenia 3.6 km2 2021 up 24.1% rising
130 Northern Mariana Islands 2.9 km2 2021 unchanged flat
131 Christmas Island 1.8 km2 2021 unchanged flat
132 Barbados 1.6 km2 2021 down 5.9% falling
133 United States Virgin Islands 1.2 km2 2021 unchanged falling
134 British Virgin Islands 0.7 km2 2021 unchanged flat
135 United Arab Emirates 0.6 km2 2021 up 50.0% rising
136 Azerbaijan 0.5 km2 2021 up 25.0% rising
137 Djibouti 0.2 km2 2021 unchanged flat
138 Mauritania 0.1 km2 2021 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Remaining moutain area; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value
Unit
km2
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
180 places, 1,080 data points, 2000–2021
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