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15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Total; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value by country

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Countries reporting
162
Highest
99.88 %
French Guiana
Lowest
0.02 %
Niger
Median
49.84 %
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
1,236

What the numbers show

15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Total; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value is currently reported for 162 countries. The highest value is 99.88 % in French Guiana; the lowest is 0.02 % in Niger.

The median across all reporting countries is 49.84 %, and the mean is 49.45 %.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4,994.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 116 fell. The largest increase was in Niger (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 19.6%).

15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Total; Land Cover: Tree-covered: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
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
5 Solomon Islands 97.95 % 2021 down 0.6% flat
6 Liberia 97.22 % 2021 down 1.8% flat
7 Cambodia 96.98 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
8 Equatorial Guinea 96.78 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
9 Trinidad and Tobago 96.75 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
10 Malaysia 96.26 % 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 94.4 % 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 92.53 % 2021 down 0.2% flat
20 Bangladesh 92.44 % 2021 down 3.3% flat
21 Indonesia 91.89 % 2021 down 1.1% flat
22 Gabon 91.18 % 2021 down 0.2% flat
23 China, Hong Kong SAR 90.2 % 2021 down 0.2% flat
24 British Virgin Islands 88.75 % 2021 unchanged flat
25 Sierra Leone 88.49 % 2021 down 3.7% flat
26 Myanmar 87.34 % 2021 down 1.7% flat
27 New Caledonia 87.05 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
28 Panama 86.67 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
29 Republic of Korea 86.57 % 2021 down 1.4% flat
30 Mayotte 86.44 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
31 Japan 86.27 % 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 Hungary 84.55 % 2021 up 0.1% flat
35 Philippines 84.43 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
36 Sri Lanka 83.47 % 2021 down 4.5% falling
37 Jamaica 83.16 % 2021 down 1.0% flat
38 Costa Rica 83.02 % 2021 down 1.6% flat
39 Comoros 82.91 % 2021 down 1.9% flat
40 Fiji 80.72 % 2021 down 2.0% flat
41 Dominican Republic 80.55 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
42 Honduras 80.4 % 2021 down 3.2% flat
43 Ghana 80.05 % 2021 down 2.2% flat
44 Senegal 78.77 % 2021 down 1.2% flat
45 Puerto Rico 77.98 % 2021 down 1.2% flat
46 Togo 77.79 % 2021 down 2.8% flat
47 Nicaragua 76.72 % 2021 down 1.5% flat
48 Guatemala 76.44 % 2021 down 1.9% flat
49 Ukraine 76.11 % 2021 down 0.1% flat
50 Bhutan 75.48 % 2021 down 0.6% flat
51 Colombia 74.95 % 2021 down 1.7% flat
52 Guinea 73.73 % 2021 down 6.7% falling
53 Cameroon 72.72 % 2021 down 1.9% flat
54 El Salvador 70.84 % 2021 down 3.4% falling
55 Christmas Island 70.36 % 2021 unchanged flat
56 Slovenia 68.29 % 2021 down 0.1% flat
57 Ecuador 68.28 % 2021 down 0.9% flat
58 Croatia 65.61 % 2021 down 0.3% flat
59 Belgium 65.39 % 2021 down 0.3% flat
60 Slovakia 64.72 % 2021 down 0.1% flat
61 Zambia 64.21 % 2021 down 3.7% falling
62 Romania 63.27 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
63 Australia 61.76 % 2021 down 3.8% flat
64 Mozambique 61.25 % 2021 down 9.1% falling
65 Cook Islands 60.41 % 2021 unchanged flat
66 India 58.5 % 2021 down 0.9% flat
67 Bulgaria 58.19 % 2021 down 0.5% flat
68 Montenegro 58.14 % 2021 down 0.5% flat
69 Serbia 57.72 % 2021 up 0.2% flat
70 Bosnia and Herzegovina 56.61 % 2021 down 0.7% flat
71 American Samoa 56.33 % 2021 unchanged flat
72 Australia and New Zealand 54.98 % 2021 down 2.8% flat
73 Poland 54.44 % 2021 up 0.1% flat
74 Benin 54.27 % 2021 down 2.3% flat
75 Montserrat 53.85 % 2021 up 3.9% flat
76 Haiti 53.47 % 2021 down 0.9% flat
77 Russian Federation 51.97 % 2021 down 1.1% flat
78 Luxembourg 51.84 % 2021 up 0.1% flat
79 Czechia 51.67 % 2021 down 0.6% flat
80 Georgia 51.57 % 2021 up 0.6% flat
81 Austria 51.5 % 2021 down 0.5% flat
82 Nepal 48.18 % 2021 down 1.3% flat
83 France 46.88 % 2021 up 0.3% flat
84 Nigeria 46.83 % 2021 down 2.3% flat
85 French Polynesia 46.82 % 2021 unchanged flat
86 Italy 46.73 % 2021 down 0.0% flat
87 Burkina Faso 46.48 % 2021 down 1.9% flat
88 Congo 46.09 % 2021 down 3.0% flat
89 North Macedonia 45.91 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
90 Mexico 45.39 % 2021 down 0.5% flat
91 New Zealand 43.32 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
92 Liechtenstein 43.07 % 2021 down 2.8% rising
93 Paraguay 42.59 % 2021 down 6.8% falling
94 Andorra 42.56 % 2021 down 0.3% flat
95 Samoa 42.01 % 2021 unchanged flat
96 Eswatini 41.84 % 2021 up 0.0% flat
97 Cyprus 39.84 % 2021 down 1.9% flat
98 Sweden 39.05 % 2021 up 2.5% flat
99 South Sudan 38.94 % 2021 down 2.8% flat
100 Albania 38.21 % 2021 down 2.7% falling
101 United States Virgin Islands 36.96 % 2021 down 1.9% falling
102 Malawi 36.93 % 2021 down 5.7% falling
103 Burundi 35.5 % 2021 down 2.9% flat
104 Mali 35.02 % 2021 down 2.3% flat
105 Madagascar 34.91 % 2021 down 2.0% flat
106 Greece 34.77 % 2021 up 0.6% rising
107 Peru 33.01 % 2021 down 0.4% flat
108 Spain 32.92 % 2021 down 1.0% rising
109 Angola 32.43 % 2021 down 4.0% falling
110 China, mainland 30.53 % 2021 down 1.0% flat
111 Switzerland 30.52 % 2021 down 0.7% flat
112 Brazil 29.57 % 2021 down 1.1% flat
113 Barbados 28.52 % 2021 down 0.9% falling
114 Zimbabwe 27.93 % 2021 down 2.8% falling
115 Finland 27.21 % 2021 down 0.2% flat
116 Ethiopia 24.83 % 2021 down 3.4% flat
117 South Africa 24.2 % 2021 down 8.5% falling
118 Uganda 22.67 % 2021 down 7.2% falling
119 Azerbaijan 22.23 % 2021 up 0.4% flat
120 Tonga 21.99 % 2021 unchanged flat
121 Portugal 21.54 % 2021 down 19.6% falling
122 Rwanda 20.59 % 2021 down 3.2% flat
123 Chile 19.89 % 2021 down 0.2% flat
124 Uruguay 17.65 % 2021 up 2.6% rising
125 San Marino 15.63 % 2021 down 4.1% falling
126 Lesotho 15.46 % 2021 up 0.3% flat
127 Kenya 15 % 2021 down 3.2% falling
128 Armenia 14.67 % 2021 up 1.2% flat
129 Kazakhstan 14.09 % 2021 up 0.9% flat
130 Mongolia 11.99 % 2021 down 1.2% flat
131 Ireland 11.9 % 2021 down 5.9% flat
132 Lebanon 10.8 % 2021 down 1.2% flat
133 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 9.34 % 2021 unchanged flat
134 Northern Mariana Islands 8.16 % 2021 unchanged flat
135 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 7.52 % 2021 down 10.3% falling
136 Tunisia 6.06 % 2021 down 3.7% flat
137 Faroe Islands 5.49 % 2021 unchanged flat
138 Botswana 5.21 % 2021 up 0.6% flat
139 Pakistan 5.11 % 2021 up 1.2% flat
140 Kyrgyzstan 5.07 % 2021 up 3.3% flat
141 Algeria 4.77 % 2021 up 1.3% flat
141 Morocco 4.77 % 2021 up 3.0% flat
143 Sudan 3.32 % 2021 up 1.5% flat
144 Chad 2.73 % 2021 down 1.4% flat
145 Uzbekistan 2.6 % 2021 up 5.3% rising
146 Isle of Man 2.56 % 2021 down 12.3% rising
147 Palestine, State of 1.45 % 2021 up 17.9% rising
148 Tajikistan 1.18 % 2021 up 4.4% flat
149 Somalia 1.1 % 2021 unchanged flat
150 Afghanistan 0.91 % 2021 down 2.2% flat
151 Eritrea 0.89 % 2021 up 14.1% rising
152 Yemen 0.6 % 2021 up 5.3% rising
153 Iraq 0.59 % 2021 up 18.0% rising
154 Jordan 0.54 % 2021 up 1.9% flat
155 Libya 0.48 % 2021 unchanged flat
156 Oman 0.44 % 2021 down 2.2% flat
157 Turkmenistan 0.16 % 2021 down 5.9% falling
158 Iceland 0.09 % 2021 unchanged rising
159 Namibia 0.07 % 2021 up 40.0% rising
159 Saudi Arabia 0.07 % 2021 up 16.7% rising
161 United Arab Emirates 0.03 % 2021 up 50.0% rising
162 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.

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Indicator
15.4.2a Mountain Green Cover Index: Total; Land Cover: Tree-covered areas — Value
Unit
%
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
206 places, 1,236 data points, 2000–2021
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