Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Forest land by country

Name: Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Forest land
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Countries reporting

189

Highest

1.16 million Hectares

OECD

Lowest

0.46 Hectares

Malta

Median

2,723 Hectares

Years covered

2000–2020

Data points

5,127

What the numbers show

Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Forest land is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 1.16 million Hectares in OECD; the lowest is 0.46 Hectares in Malta.

The median across all reporting countries is 2,723 Hectares, and the mean is 27,531 Hectares.

Over the past decade 72 countries rose and 84 fell. The largest increase was in Burundi (up 44.2%), and the largest decrease in Sudan (down 32.6%).

Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	OECD	1.16 million Hectares	2020	up 0.6%	flat
2	Russia	815,312 Hectares	2020	up 0.0%	flat
3	Brazil	496,620 Hectares	2020	down 2.9%	falling
4	Canada	346,928 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
5	United States	309,795 Hectares	2020	up 0.3%	flat
6	China	219,978 Hectares	2020	up 9.7%	rising
7	Australia	134,005 Hectares	2020	up 3.4%	flat
8	Indonesia	92,133 Hectares	2020	down 7.6%	falling
9	Peru	72,330 Hectares	2020	down 2.3%	flat
10	India	72,160 Hectares	2020	up 3.8%	rising
11	Angola	66,607 Hectares	2020	down 7.7%	falling
12	Mexico	65,692 Hectares	2020	down 1.9%	flat
13	Colombia	59,142 Hectares	2020	down 2.7%	falling
14	Bolivia	50,834 Hectares	2020	down 4.2%	falling
15	Venezuela	46,231 Hectares	2020	down 2.7%	falling
16	Tanzania	45,745 Hectares	2020	down 8.4%	falling
16	Ethiopia	17,068 Hectares	2020	down 4.1%	falling
17	Zambia	44,814 Hectares	2020	down 4.0%	flat
17	Madagascar	12,430 Hectares	2020	down 1.1%	flat
18	Mozambique	36,744 Hectares	2020	down 5.7%	falling
19	Papua New Guinea	35,856 Hectares	2020	down 0.9%	flat
20	Argentina	28,573 Hectares	2020	down 5.4%	falling
20	Equatorial Guinea	2,448 Hectares	2020	down 3.3%	falling
21	Myanmar	28,544 Hectares	2020	down 9.2%	falling
21	Croatia	1,939 Hectares	2020	up 1.0%	flat
22	Sweden	27,980 Hectares	2020	down 0.3%	flat
23	Japan	24,935 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
23	Fiji	1,140 Hectares	2020	up 6.2%	rising
24	Gabon	23,531 Hectares	2020	down 0.5%	flat
24	Eswatini	497.56 Hectares	2020	up 2.5%	rising
25	Finland	22,409 Hectares	2020	up 0.8%	flat
25	Moldova	386.5 Hectares	2020	up 3.2%	rising
26	Democratic Republic of the Congo	126,155 Hectares	2020	down 8.0%	falling
26	Central African Republic	22,303 Hectares	2020	down 1.3%	flat
26	Mauritania	312.8 Hectares	2020	down 14.8%	falling
27	Congo	21,946 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	flat
27	Cabo Verde	45.72 Hectares	2020	up 7.0%	rising
28	Nigeria	21,627 Hectares	2020	down 7.0%	falling
28	Lesotho	34.52 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
29	Cameroon	20,340 Hectares	2020	down 2.7%	falling
30	Thailand	19,873 Hectares	2020	down 1.0%	flat
31	Malaysia	19,114 Hectares	2020	up 0.9%	flat
32	Spain	18,572 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	rising
33	Guyana	18,415 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	flat
34	Türkiye	22,220 Hectares	2020	up 5.4%	rising
34	Sudan	18,360 Hectares	2020	down 32.6%	falling
35	Chile	18,211 Hectares	2020	up 8.9%	rising
35	Viet Nam	14,643 Hectares	2020	up 9.4%	rising
36	Zimbabwe	17,445 Hectares	2020	down 2.6%	falling
36	Poland	9,483 Hectares	2020	up 1.7%	flat
37	France	17,253 Hectares	2020	up 5.1%	rising
38	South Africa	17,050 Hectares	2020	down 2.1%	flat
39	Laos	16,596 Hectares	2020	down 2.0%	flat
39	Latvia	3,411 Hectares	2020	up 1.1%	rising
40	Paraguay	16,102 Hectares	2020	down 17.7%	falling
40	Estonia	2,438 Hectares	2020	up 4.4%	rising
41	Botswana	15,255 Hectares	2020	down 7.2%	falling
41	Lithuania	2,201 Hectares	2020	up 1.4%	rising
42	Suriname	15,196 Hectares	2020	down 0.7%	flat
43	Mongolia	14,173 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
43	Slovenia	1,238 Hectares	2020	down 0.7%	flat
44	Mali	13,296 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
44	Timor-Leste	921.1 Hectares	2020	down 1.5%	flat
45	Ecuador	12,498 Hectares	2020	down 4.1%	falling
45	Syrian Arab Republic	522.08 Hectares	2020	up 6.1%	rising
46	Norway	12,180 Hectares	2020	up 0.6%	flat
46	Netherlands	369.5 Hectares	2020	down 1.1%	flat
47	Germany	11,419 Hectares	2020	up 0.1%	flat
47	Micronesia	64.42 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	flat
48	Iran	10,752 Hectares	2020	up 0.6%	rising
49	New Zealand	9,893 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	flat
50	Ukraine	9,690 Hectares	2020	up 1.5%	flat
51	Italy	9,566 Hectares	2020	up 6.0%	rising
52	Belarus	8,768 Hectares	2020	up 1.6%	rising
53	Cambodia	8,068 Hectares	2020	down 23.8%	falling
54	Senegal	8,068 Hectares	2020	down 4.7%	falling
55	Ghana	7,986 Hectares	2020	up 0.5%	falling
56	Liberia	7,617 Hectares	2020	down 3.8%	falling
57	Philippines	7,189 Hectares	2020	up 5.1%	flat
58	South Sudan	7,157 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
59	Romania	6,929 Hectares	2020	up 6.4%	rising
60	Namibia	6,639 Hectares	2020	down 9.7%	falling
61	Honduras	6,359 Hectares	2020	down 3.3%	falling
62	Burkina Faso	6,216 Hectares	2020	down 7.4%	falling
63	Guinea	6,189 Hectares	2020	down 5.8%	falling
64	North Korea	6,030 Hectares	2020	down 3.4%	falling
65	Somalia	5,980 Hectares	2020	down 11.4%	falling
66	Nepal	5,962 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
67	Morocco	5,742 Hectares	2020	up 1.2%	flat
68	Chad	4,313 Hectares	2020	down 22.0%	falling
69	Panama	4,214 Hectares	2020	down 2.6%	falling
70	Turkmenistan	4,127 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
71	Greece	3,902 Hectares	2020	down 0.0%	rising
72	Austria	3,899 Hectares	2020	up 0.9%	flat
73	Bulgaria	3,893 Hectares	2020	up 4.2%	rising
74	Pakistan	3,726 Hectares	2020	down 9.0%	falling
75	Uzbekistan	3,690 Hectares	2020	up 10.2%	rising
76	Kenya	3,611 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	falling
77	Guatemala	3,528 Hectares	2020	down 5.2%	falling
78	Kazakhstan	3,455 Hectares	2020	up 12.1%	rising
79	Nicaragua	3,408 Hectares	2020	down 18.6%	falling
80	Portugal	3,312 Hectares	2020	up 1.8%	flat
81	Cuba	3,242 Hectares	2020	up 10.6%	rising
82	United Kingdom	3,190 Hectares	2020	up 4.3%	rising
83	Benin	3,135 Hectares	2020	down 13.8%	falling
84	Costa Rica	3,035 Hectares	2020	up 5.7%	rising
85	Côte d’Ivoire	2,837 Hectares	2020	down 28.5%	falling
86	Georgia	2,822 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
87	Bhutan	2,725 Hectares	2020	up 0.7%	flat
88	Serbia	2,723 Hectares	2020	up 0.4%	falling
89	Czechia	2,677 Hectares	2020	up 0.7%	flat
90	Sierra Leone	2,535 Hectares	2020	down 7.2%	falling
91	Solomon Islands	2,523 Hectares	2020	down 0.3%	flat
92	Uganda	2,338 Hectares	2020	down 15.0%	falling
93	Malawi	2,242 Hectares	2020	down 15.8%	falling
94	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,188 Hectares	2020	up 4.1%	flat
95	Dominican Republic	2,144 Hectares	2020	up 3.4%	rising
96	Sri Lanka	2,113 Hectares	2020	up 0.4%	flat
97	Hungary	2,053 Hectares	2020	up 0.3%	rising
98	Uruguay	2,031 Hectares	2020	up 17.3%	rising
99	Guinea-Bissau	1,980 Hectares	2020	down 4.1%	falling
100	Algeria	1,949 Hectares	2020	up 1.6%	rising
101	Bangladesh	1,883 Hectares	2020	down 0.3%	flat
102	Kyrgyzstan	1,315 Hectares	2020	up 7.0%	rising
103	Belize	1,277 Hectares	2020	down 8.2%	falling
104	Switzerland	1,269 Hectares	2020	up 2.8%	rising
105	Togo	1,209 Hectares	2020	down 2.4%	flat
106	Afghanistan	1,208 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
107	Azerbaijan	1,132 Hectares	2020	up 9.6%	rising
108	Niger	1,080 Hectares	2020	down 10.3%	falling
109	Eritrea	1,055 Hectares	2020	down 2.9%	falling
110	North Macedonia	1,001 Hectares	2020	up 4.3%	rising
111	Saudi Arabia	977 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
112	Montenegro	827 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
113	Iraq	825 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
114	Albania	788.9 Hectares	2020	up 0.9%	flat
115	Ireland	782.02 Hectares	2020	up 8.6%	rising
116	Tunisia	702.73 Hectares	2020	up 2.2%	rising
117	Belgium	689.3 Hectares	2020	down 0.1%	flat
118	Denmark	628.44 Hectares	2020	up 7.2%	rising
119	Jamaica	596.89 Hectares	2020	up 6.9%	rising
120	El Salvador	583.88 Hectares	2020	down 7.2%	falling
121	Yemen	549 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
122	Bahamas	509.86 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
123	Vanuatu	442.3 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
124	Tajikistan	423.8 Hectares	2020	up 3.4%	flat
125	Brunei Darussalam	380 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
126	Haiti	347.3 Hectares	2020	down 8.2%	falling
127	Armenia	328.47 Hectares	2020	down 0.6%	flat
128	United Arab Emirates	317.3 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
129	Burundi	279.64 Hectares	2020	up 44.2%	rising
130	Rwanda	276 Hectares	2020	up 4.2%	flat
131	Gambia	242.67 Hectares	2020	down 19.1%	falling
132	Trinidad and Tobago	228.19 Hectares	2020	down 1.8%	flat
133	Libya	217 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
134	Cyprus	172.53 Hectares	2020	down 0.2%	flat
135	Samoa	161.67 Hectares	2020	down 2.9%	falling
136	Lebanon	143.33 Hectares	2020	up 4.4%	flat
137	Israel	140 Hectares	2020	down 9.1%	falling
138	Jordan	97.5 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
139	Luxembourg	88.7 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
140	Sao Tome and Principe	51.9 Hectares	2020	down 10.7%	falling
141	Iceland	51.35 Hectares	2020	up 15.0%	rising
142	Dominica	47.87 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
143	Egypt	44.98 Hectares	2020	down 31.5%	falling
144	Palau	41.41 Hectares	2020	up 2.1%	flat
145	Mauritius	38.77 Hectares	2020	up 1.0%	falling
146	Seychelles	33.7 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
147	Comoros	32.92 Hectares	2020	down 11.7%	falling
148	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.54 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
149	Saint Lucia	20.77 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
150	Grenada	17.7 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
151	Andorra	16 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
152	Singapore	15.57 Hectares	2020	down 12.2%	falling
153	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
154	Marshall Islands	9.4 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
155	Tonga	8.95 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
156	Antigua and Barbuda	8.12 Hectares	2020	down 7.5%	falling
157	Liechtenstein	6.7 Hectares	2020	up 0.0%	flat
158	Barbados	6.3 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
159	Kuwait	6.25 Hectares	2020	unchanged	rising
160	Djibouti	5.8 Hectares	2020	up 3.6%	flat
161	Oman	2.5 Hectares	2020	down 16.7%	falling
162	Kiribati	1.18 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
163	San Marino	1 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
163	Tuvalu	1 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
165	Maldives	0.82 Hectares	2020	unchanged	flat
166	Bahrain	0.7 Hectares	2020	up 34.6%	rising
167	Malta	0.46 Hectares	2020	up 31.4%	rising

Regions and income groups

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

World 4.05 million Hectares
Non-resource-rich countries 2.95 million Hectares
World outside Africa 3.41 million Hectares
World outside Africa, non-resource-rich countries 2.45 million Hectares
Upper-middle income countries (World Bank) 2.07 million Hectares
Resource-rich countries 1.10 million Hectares
World outside Africa, upper-middle income countries (World Bank) 2.00 million Hectares
Latin America and the Caribbean 931,488 Hectares
High income countries 1.05 million Hectares
Africa 635,860 Hectares
High income countries (excluding Latin American and Caribbean countries) 1.01 million Hectares
Least developed countries 532,478 Hectares
World outside Africa, resource-rich countries 966,627 Hectares
Southern African Development Community (SADC) 391,763 Hectares
MERCOSUR 836,183 Hectares
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) 288,252 Hectares
Lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 584,581 Hectares
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 253,627 Hectares
Asia (excluding high income countries) 559,485 Hectares
Central Africa (African Union) 221,368 Hectares
Fragile states 515,182 Hectares
Southern Africa (African Union) 207,327 Hectares
Africa, non-resource-rich countries 507,333 Hectares
ASEAN 206,555 Hectares
Africa, least developed countries 465,873 Hectares
Small Island Developing States 85,467 Hectares
Africa, fragile states 336,207 Hectares
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 84,064 Hectares
World outside Africa, lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 304,810 Hectares
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) 54,520 Hectares
Low income countries (World Bank) 299,186 Hectares
Africa, low income countries (World Bank) 290,877 Hectares
Africa, lower-middle income countries (World Bank) 279,771 Hectares
Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) 8,924 Hectares
Land Locked Developing Countries 278,073 Hectares
Korea 6,287 Hectares
East African Community 185,562 Hectares
World outside Africa, fragile states 178,975 Hectares
European Union (27 countries) 159,231 Hectares
Slovak Republic 1,926 Hectares

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Indicator: Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 23 - Ecological sustainability — Forest land
Unit: Hectares
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence: OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage: 245 places, 5,127 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed: 18 August 2026

The Statistical Annex to the annual Africa's Development Dynamics (AFDD) report is a collection of development indicators that were gathered and analysed while conducting the research that went into the report. These data are also available online for free viewing or download at https://oe.cd/AFDD-2024, a bilingual website which links to the electronic version of the Africa's Development Dynamics book in both English and French. Table 23 shows indicators of ecological sustainability, in terms of land use. This includes number of hectars of land allocated to different kinds of use, carbon stock in living biomass, and fertiliser use, and wood production.