15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Montane; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value by country
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What the numbers show
15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Montane; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value is currently reported for 104 countries. The highest value is 98.72 % in Equatorial Guinea; the lowest is 0.01 % in Jordan.
The median across all reporting countries is 45.62 %, and the mean is 43.82 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 9,872.
Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 70 fell. The largest increase was in Uruguay (up 28.9%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 21.5%).
15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Montane; Land Cover: Tree-covered: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Equatorial Guinea | 98.72 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 2 | Panama | 96.83 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 95.34 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 4 | Dominican Republic | 95.3 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 5 | South Sudan | 95 % | 2021 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 6 | Honduras | 94.32 % | 2021 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 7 | El Salvador | 94.26 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 8 | Papua New Guinea | 90.36 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 9 | Philippines | 89.31 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 10 | Indonesia | 88.34 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 11 | Republic of Korea | 87.98 % | 2021 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 12 | Myanmar | 87.51 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 13 | Japan | 86.37 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 14 | Hungary | 84.55 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 15 | Uganda | 83.02 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 16 | Malaysia | 81.07 % | 2021 | down 10.9% | falling |
| 17 | Bhutan | 80.04 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 18 | Ukraine | 76.11 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 19 | Russian Federation | 74.35 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 20 | Guatemala | 71.66 % | 2021 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 21 | Slovenia | 68.55 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 22 | Australia | 67.33 % | 2021 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 23 | Colombia | 66.98 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 24 | Croatia | 65.94 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 25 | Cyprus | 65.5 % | 2021 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 26 | Belgium | 65.39 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 27 | Slovakia | 65.19 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 28 | Romania | 63.35 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 29 | Cameroon | 62.34 % | 2021 | down 2.7% | flat |
| 30 | Rwanda | 60.7 % | 2021 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 31 | Burundi | 58.71 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 32 | Bulgaria | 58.58 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 33 | Sweden | 58.38 % | 2021 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 34 | Comoros | 58.33 % | 2021 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 35 | Montenegro | 58.27 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 36 | Mexico | 57.87 % | 2021 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 37 | Austria | 57.78 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 38 | Serbia | 57.77 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 39 | Australia and New Zealand | 56.68 % | 2021 | down 3.5% | flat |
| 40 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 56.63 % | 2021 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 41 | Ecuador | 55.6 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 42 | Andorra | 55.06 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 43 | Poland | 54.58 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 44 | Georgia | 54.15 % | 2021 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 45 | Italy | 51.97 % | 2021 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 46 | Luxembourg | 51.84 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 47 | Czechia | 51.67 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 48 | Nepal | 51.23 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 49 | France | 49.07 % | 2021 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 50 | Brazil | 47.97 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 51 | India | 47.68 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 52 | North Macedonia | 45.99 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 53 | Kenya | 45.24 % | 2021 | down 4.4% | falling |
| 54 | New Zealand | 44.69 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 55 | Liechtenstein | 44.12 % | 2021 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 56 | Finland | 42.47 % | 2021 | down 2.4% | falling |
| 57 | Zimbabwe | 42.23 % | 2021 | down 5.8% | falling |
| 58 | Haiti | 41.59 % | 2021 | down 2.8% | falling |
| 59 | Greece | 40.7 % | 2021 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 60 | Switzerland | 39.38 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 61 | Madagascar | 39.37 % | 2021 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 62 | Guyana | 39.2 % | 2021 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 63 | Albania | 38.55 % | 2021 | down 2.6% | falling |
| 64 | Spain | 37.61 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | rising |
| 65 | China, mainland | 34.38 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 66 | Eswatini | 33.42 % | 2021 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 67 | Mozambique | 33.29 % | 2021 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 68 | Chile | 27.72 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 69 | Somalia | 25.95 % | 2021 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 70 | Azerbaijan | 23.42 % | 2021 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 71 | Malawi | 22.79 % | 2021 | down 2.5% | falling |
| 72 | Ethiopia | 20.04 % | 2021 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 73 | Portugal | 19.26 % | 2021 | down 21.5% | falling |
| 74 | Peru | 18.89 % | 2021 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 75 | Kazakhstan | 18.4 % | 2021 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 76 | Tunisia | 17.63 % | 2021 | down 6.5% | falling |
| 77 | Lesotho | 16.51 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 78 | San Marino | 15.63 % | 2021 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 79 | Armenia | 15.32 % | 2021 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 80 | Pakistan | 13.71 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 81 | Mongolia | 12.33 % | 2021 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 82 | Ireland | 12.11 % | 2021 | down 5.8% | flat |
| 83 | Libya | 9.29 % | 2021 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 84 | Algeria | 8.61 % | 2021 | up 2.0% | flat |
| 85 | South Africa | 8.44 % | 2021 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 86 | Uruguay | 8.43 % | 2021 | up 28.9% | rising |
| 87 | Morocco | 7.71 % | 2021 | up 3.6% | flat |
| 88 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 7.7 % | 2021 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 89 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.91 % | 2021 | up 3.1% | flat |
| 90 | Faroe Islands | 5.91 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 91 | Lebanon | 5.69 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 92 | Uzbekistan | 3.46 % | 2021 | up 3.9% | rising |
| 93 | Isle of Man | 2.56 % | 2021 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 94 | Tajikistan | 2.09 % | 2021 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 95 | Iraq | 1.48 % | 2021 | up 21.3% | rising |
| 96 | Eritrea | 1.27 % | 2021 | up 4.1% | flat |
| 97 | Afghanistan | 1.18 % | 2021 | down 1.7% | flat |
| 98 | Saudi Arabia | 0.79 % | 2021 | up 3.9% | flat |
| 99 | Yemen | 0.74 % | 2021 | up 8.8% | rising |
| 100 | Sudan | 0.72 % | 2021 | up 7.5% | rising |
| 101 | Iceland | 0.37 % | 2021 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 102 | Turkmenistan | 0.2 % | 2021 | unchanged | falling |
| 103 | Oman | 0.04 % | 2021 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 104 | Jordan | 0.01 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 99.55 %
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 90.36 %
- Viet Nam 96.76 %
- South-Eastern Asia 88.43 %
- Small island developing States (SIDS) 89.39 %
- Europe 66.09 %
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 80.11 %
- Northern America and Europe 60.13 %
- Republic of Moldova 74.63 %
- Oceania 59.21 %
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 69.15 %
- Northern America 53.02 %
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 68.78 %
- United States of America 44.47 %
- United Republic of Tanzania 49.83 %
- World 42.92 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 35.19 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 15.04 %
- Eastern Asia 34.43 %
- Syrian Arab Republic 3.7 %
- Western Asia 24.07 %
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 3.38 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 22.69 %
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3.11 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 20.9 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 17.46 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 11.86 %
- Southern Asia 10.16 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 10.1 %
- Central Asia 9.97 %
- Northern Africa 8.17 %
About this data
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