15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Remaining moutain area; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value by country
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What the numbers show
15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Remaining moutain area; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value is currently reported for 139 countries. The highest value is 99.88 % in French Guiana; the lowest is 0.02 % in Niger.
The median across all reporting countries is 52.88 %, and the mean is 50.53 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4,994.
Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 96 fell. The largest increase was in Niger (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Croatia (down 21.2%).
15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Remaining moutain area; Land: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French Guiana | 99.88 % | 2021 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 2 | Suriname | 99.87 % | 2021 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 3 | Brunei Darussalam | 99.86 % | 2021 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 4 | Belize | 98.12 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 4 | Viet Nam | 82.7 % | 2021 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 5 | Solomon Islands | 97.95 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 6 | Liberia | 97.22 % | 2021 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 6 | Timor-Leste | 78.03 % | 2021 | down 1.7% | flat |
| 7 | Cambodia | 96.98 % | 2021 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 8 | Trinidad and Tobago | 96.75 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 9 | Equatorial Guinea | 96.71 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 9 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 62.98 % | 2021 | down 3.3% | flat |
| 10 | Malaysia | 96.27 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 11 | Grenada | 96.09 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 12 | Saint Lucia | 95.53 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 13 | Guadeloupe | 95.52 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 14 | Papua New Guinea | 94.88 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 15 | Vanuatu | 93.97 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 16 | Cuba | 93.6 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 17 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 93.55 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 18 | Martinique | 92.9 % | 2021 | down 1.0% | flat |
| 19 | Guyana | 92.54 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 20 | Bangladesh | 92.44 % | 2021 | down 3.3% | flat |
| 21 | Indonesia | 92.08 % | 2021 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 22 | Gabon | 91.18 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 23 | Bhutan | 90.42 % | 2021 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 24 | China, Hong Kong SAR | 90.2 % | 2021 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 25 | British Virgin Islands | 88.75 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 26 | Sierra Leone | 88.49 % | 2021 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 27 | Myanmar | 87.44 % | 2021 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 28 | New Caledonia | 87.05 % | 2021 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 29 | Mayotte | 86.44 % | 2021 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 30 | Panama | 86.43 % | 2021 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 31 | Japan | 86.16 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 32 | Thailand | 86.05 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 33 | Central African Republic | 85.92 % | 2021 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 34 | Philippines | 84.42 % | 2021 | down 1.3% | flat |
| 35 | Republic of Korea | 84.36 % | 2021 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 36 | Comoros | 84.1 % | 2021 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 37 | Sri Lanka | 83.47 % | 2021 | down 4.5% | falling |
| 38 | Jamaica | 83.16 % | 2021 | down 1.0% | flat |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 81.63 % | 2021 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 40 | Fiji | 80.72 % | 2021 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 41 | Honduras | 80.35 % | 2021 | down 3.2% | flat |
| 42 | Ecuador | 80.14 % | 2021 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 43 | Ghana | 80.05 % | 2021 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 44 | Dominican Republic | 79.31 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 45 | Senegal | 78.77 % | 2021 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 46 | Colombia | 78.63 % | 2021 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 47 | New Zealand | 78.2 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 48 | Puerto Rico | 77.98 % | 2021 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 49 | Togo | 77.79 % | 2021 | down 2.8% | flat |
| 50 | Guatemala | 77.16 % | 2021 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 51 | Nicaragua | 76.72 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 52 | Guinea | 73.73 % | 2021 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 53 | Cameroon | 72.77 % | 2021 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 54 | El Salvador | 70.78 % | 2021 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 55 | Christmas Island | 70.36 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 56 | Nepal | 65.75 % | 2021 | down 1.5% | flat |
| 57 | China, mainland | 64.58 % | 2021 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 58 | Zambia | 64.21 % | 2021 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 59 | India | 63.31 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 60 | Peru | 61.36 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 61 | Mozambique | 61.27 % | 2021 | down 9.1% | falling |
| 62 | Cook Islands | 60.41 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 63 | American Samoa | 56.33 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 64 | Benin | 54.27 % | 2021 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 65 | Montserrat | 53.85 % | 2021 | up 3.9% | flat |
| 66 | Haiti | 53.7 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 67 | Australia and New Zealand | 52.88 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 68 | Australia | 52.83 % | 2021 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 69 | Montenegro | 52.63 % | 2021 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 70 | Nigeria | 46.83 % | 2021 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 71 | French Polynesia | 46.82 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 72 | Burkina Faso | 46.48 % | 2021 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 73 | Congo | 46.09 % | 2021 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 74 | Russian Federation | 45.29 % | 2021 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 75 | France | 45.2 % | 2021 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 76 | Mexico | 43.28 % | 2021 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 77 | Paraguay | 42.59 % | 2021 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 78 | Samoa | 42.01 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 79 | Eswatini | 41.86 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 80 | South Sudan | 38.88 % | 2021 | down 2.8% | flat |
| 81 | Malawi | 37.04 % | 2021 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 82 | United States Virgin Islands | 36.96 % | 2021 | down 1.9% | falling |
| 83 | Cyprus | 36.07 % | 2021 | down 1.8% | flat |
| 84 | Burundi | 35.25 % | 2021 | down 2.9% | flat |
| 85 | Mali | 35.02 % | 2021 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 86 | Madagascar | 34.88 % | 2021 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 87 | Portugal | 34.87 % | 2021 | down 12.2% | falling |
| 88 | Angola | 32.43 % | 2021 | down 4.0% | falling |
| 89 | Brazil | 29.34 % | 2021 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 90 | South Africa | 29.07 % | 2021 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 91 | Barbados | 28.52 % | 2021 | down 0.9% | falling |
| 92 | Zimbabwe | 27.8 % | 2021 | down 2.8% | falling |
| 93 | Ethiopia | 25.35 % | 2021 | down 3.5% | flat |
| 94 | Tonga | 21.99 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 95 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 21.07 % | 2021 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 96 | Uganda | 20.69 % | 2021 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 97 | Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha | 19.82 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 98 | Uruguay | 18.55 % | 2021 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 99 | Rwanda | 17.69 % | 2021 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 100 | Italy | 17.39 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 101 | Croatia | 16.68 % | 2021 | down 21.2% | falling |
| 102 | Spain | 15.89 % | 2021 | down 2.3% | rising |
| 103 | Lebanon | 15.53 % | 2021 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 104 | Greece | 13.42 % | 2021 | down 2.0% | rising |
| 105 | Albania | 12.2 % | 2021 | down 8.7% | falling |
| 105 | Kenya | 12.2 % | 2021 | down 2.9% | falling |
| 107 | Northern Mariana Islands | 8.16 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 108 | Tunisia | 5.34 % | 2021 | down 3.1% | flat |
| 109 | Botswana | 5.21 % | 2021 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 110 | Algeria | 3.6 % | 2021 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 111 | Pakistan | 3.48 % | 2021 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 112 | Morocco | 3.38 % | 2021 | up 2.7% | flat |
| 113 | Sudan | 3.32 % | 2021 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 114 | Lesotho | 2.89 % | 2021 | up 2.5% | flat |
| 115 | Chad | 2.79 % | 2021 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 116 | Kyrgyzstan | 1.68 % | 2021 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 117 | Palestine | 1.45 % | 2021 | up 17.9% | rising |
| 118 | Chile | 1.29 % | 2021 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 119 | Somalia | 1.07 % | 2021 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 120 | Eritrea | 0.89 % | 2021 | up 14.1% | rising |
| 121 | Uzbekistan | 0.8 % | 2021 | up 15.9% | rising |
| 122 | Jordan | 0.59 % | 2021 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 122 | Yemen | 0.59 % | 2021 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 124 | Afghanistan | 0.52 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 125 | Iraq | 0.49 % | 2021 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 125 | Tajikistan | 0.49 % | 2021 | up 8.9% | rising |
| 127 | Kazakhstan | 0.48 % | 2021 | up 4.3% | flat |
| 128 | Oman | 0.45 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 129 | Libya | 0.44 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 130 | Armenia | 0.37 % | 2021 | up 27.6% | rising |
| 131 | Turkmenistan | 0.15 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 132 | Namibia | 0.07 % | 2021 | up 40.0% | rising |
| 132 | Saudi Arabia | 0.07 % | 2021 | up 16.7% | rising |
| 134 | United Arab Emirates | 0.03 % | 2021 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 134 | Azerbaijan | 0.03 % | 2021 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 136 | Niger | 0.02 % | 2021 | up 100.0% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 93.83 %
- Micronesia (Federated States of) 91.08 %
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 90.52 %
- South-Eastern Asia 89.24 %
- Small island developing states (SIDS) 89.94 %
- Côte d'Ivoire 82.45 %
- Oceania 81.62 %
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 80.26 %
- Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 79.07 %
- Eastern Asia 65 %
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 70.27 %
- Latin America and the Caribbean 54.05 %
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea 64.43 %
- World 44.6 %
- Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 36.53 %
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 40.72 %
- Sub-Saharan Africa 33.75 %
- United Republic of Tanzania 38 %
- Southern Asia 23.6 %
- Wallis and Futuna Islands 31.3 %
- Central Asia and Southern Asia 21.97 %
- Europe 16.53 %
- Syrian Arab Republic 3.48 %
- Northern America and Europe 9.15 %
- Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.82 %
- Northern America 6.65 %
- United States of America 6.65 %
- Northern Africa 2.91 %
- Western Asia and Northern Africa 2.7 %
- Western Asia 2.49 %
- Central Asia 0.67 %
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