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Land use hidden — Forest by country

Land resources are one of the four components of the natural environment: water, air, land and living resources. In this context land is both: a physical "milieu" necessary for the development of natural vegetation as well as cultivated vegetation; a resource for human activities. The data presented here give...

Countries reporting
199
Highest
11.64 million Square kilometres
OECD
Lowest
0 Square kilometres
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Median
18,834 Square kilometres
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
7,590

What the numbers show

Land use hidden — Forest is currently reported for 199 countries. The highest value is 11.64 million Square kilometres in OECD; the lowest is 0 Square kilometres in Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

The median across all reporting countries is 18,834 Square kilometres, and the mean is 249,792 Square kilometres.

Over the past decade 63 countries rose and 87 fell. The largest increase was in Bahrain (up 33.8%), and the largest decrease in Côte d’Ivoire (down 31.1%).

Land use hidden — Forest: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 11.64 million Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% rising
2 Russian Federation 8.15 million Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
3 Brazil 4.93 million Square kilometres 2023 down 2.8% falling
4 Canada 3.47 million Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
5 United States 3.10 million Square kilometres 2023 up 0.1% flat
6 China 2.26 million Square kilometres 2023 up 9.3% rising
7 Australia 1.34 million Square kilometres 2023 up 1.8% flat
8 Indonesia 903,166 Square kilometres 2023 down 6.8% falling
9 India 729,592 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.8% rising
10 Peru 718,119 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.3% falling
11 Mexico 653,088 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.9% falling
12 Angola 649,422 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.9% falling
13 Colombia 585,441 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.1% falling
14 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 502,063 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.3% falling
15 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 460,729 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.0% falling
16 Tanzania, United Republic of 443,380 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.2% falling
17 Zambia 442,494 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% falling
18 Mozambique 360,264 Square kilometres 2023 down 6.1% falling
19 Papua New Guinea 357,552 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.9% flat
20 Argentina 282,462 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.4% falling
21 Sweden 279,800 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
22 Myanmar 276,748 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.5% falling
23 Japan 249,350 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
24 Gabon 234,950 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.5% flat
25 Finland 224,090 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% flat
26 Central African Republic 222,130 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.3% flat
27 Congo 219,010 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% flat
28 Nigeria 211,370 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.2% falling
29 Cameroon 201,725 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.7% falling
30 Thailand 197,650 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.5% rising
31 Malaysia 189,636 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.5% falling
32 Spain 185,850 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.2% rising
33 Chile 185,794 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.7% rising
34 Guyana 183,877 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.5% flat
35 Sudan 178,431 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.8% falling
36 France 175,032 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.0% rising
37 Zimbabwe 173,064 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.6% falling
38 South Africa 169,409 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.1% falling
39 Lao People's Democratic Republic 164,920 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.0% falling
40 Paraguay 152,642 Square kilometres 2023 down 16.7% falling
41 Suriname 151,596 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.7% flat
42 Botswana 148,998 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.4% falling
43 Mongolia 141,694 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
44 Mali 132,960 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
45 Ecuador 123,050 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.6% falling
46 Norway 122,034 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.6% flat
47 Germany 114,190 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
48 Iran, Islamic Republic of 107,884 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.9% rising
49 New Zealand 99,503 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.0% flat
50 Italy 97,276 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.9% rising
51 Ukraine 97,080 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.0% flat
52 Belarus 88,111 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.1% rising
53 Ghana 80,074 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.3% falling
54 French Guiana 79,926 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.4% flat
55 Senegal 79,482 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.8% falling
56 Cambodia 76,013 Square kilometres 2023 down 20.4% falling
57 Liberia 75,267 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.9% falling
58 Philippines 72,933 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.0% falling
59 Romania 69,290 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.7% rising
60 Namibia 64,259 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.0% falling
61 Honduras 62,964 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.3% falling
62 Guinea 60,690 Square kilometres 2023 down 6.1% falling
63 Burkina Faso 60,664 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.6% falling
64 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 59,664 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.4% falling
65 Nepal 59,620 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
66 Morocco 57,738 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.6% rising
67 Somalia 57,498 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.8% falling
68 Panama 41,796 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.7% falling
69 Turkmenistan 41,270 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
70 Chad 39,804 Square kilometres 2023 down 22.7% falling
71 Bulgaria 39,320 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.6% rising
72 Greece 39,018 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.0% rising
73 Austria 38,983 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.6% flat
74 Uzbekistan 37,672 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.6% rising
75 Kenya 36,111 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.4% falling
76 Pakistan 36,019 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.9% falling
77 Kazakhstan 35,424 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.1% rising
78 Guatemala 34,930 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% falling
79 Portugal 33,120 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.7% flat
80 Cuba 32,420 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.2% rising
81 United Kingdom 32,154 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.2% rising
82 Nicaragua 31,075 Square kilometres 2023 down 22.7% falling
83 Costa Rica 30,840 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.6% rising
84 Benin 29,852 Square kilometres 2023 down 14.3% falling
85 Georgia 28,224 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
86 Bhutan 27,310 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.7% rising
87 Czechia 26,825 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.7% flat
88 Solomon Islands 25,208 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
89 Côte d’Ivoire 24,980 Square kilometres 2023 down 31.1% falling
90 Sierra Leone 24,757 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.4% falling
91 Uganda 22,141 Square kilometres 2023 down 15.7% falling
92 Bosnia and Herzegovina 21,879 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.4% flat
93 Dominican Republic 21,684 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.7% rising
94 Malawi 21,157 Square kilometres 2023 down 16.6% falling
95 Sri Lanka 21,035 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.7% falling
96 Uruguay 20,940 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.5% rising
97 Hungary 20,486 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% rising
98 Algeria 19,776 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.9% rising
99 Guinea-Bissau 19,547 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% falling
100 Bangladesh 18,834 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
101 Kyrgyzstan 13,701 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.2% rising
102 Switzerland 12,794 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.8% rising
103 Belize 12,436 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.3% falling
104 Afghanistan 12,084 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
105 Togo 12,004 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.4% falling
106 Azerbaijan 11,664 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.1% rising
107 Eritrea 10,458 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.9% falling
108 Niger 10,424 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.6% falling
109 North Macedonia 10,015 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.1% rising
110 Saudi Arabia 9,770 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
111 New Caledonia 8,377 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
112 Iraq 8,250 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
113 Ireland 7,940 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.2% rising
114 Albania 7,889 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% flat
115 Tunisia 7,073 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.2% rising
116 Belgium 6,893 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.0% flat
117 Denmark 6,313 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.6% rising
118 Jamaica 6,085 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.8% rising
119 El Salvador 5,704 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.3% falling
120 Yemen 5,490 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
121 Bahamas 5,099 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
122 Puerto Rico 4,978 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.0% rising
123 Vanuatu 4,423 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
124 Tajikistan 4,268 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.3% flat
125 Brunei Darussalam 3,800 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
126 Haiti 3,380 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.4% falling
127 Armenia 3,276 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.7% flat
128 United Arab Emirates 3,173 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
129 Burundi 2,796 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.0% rising
130 Rwanda 2,790 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.1% falling
131 Trinidad and Tobago 2,269 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.8% falling
132 Gambia 2,255 Square kilometres 2023 down 20.3% falling
133 Libya 2,170 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
134 Cyprus 1,725 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% rising
135 Samoa 1,602 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.9% falling
136 French Polynesia 1,495 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
137 Lebanon 1,451 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.3% flat
138 Israel 1,400 Square kilometres 2023 down 12.8% flat
139 Réunion 998.8 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.9% rising
140 Jordan 975 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
141 Luxembourg 887 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
142 Guadeloupe 717.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
143 Iceland 533.13 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.0% rising
144 Martinique 528.9 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.9% rising
145 Sao Tome and Principe 500.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.0% falling
146 Dominica 478.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
147 Egypt 449.8 Square kilometres 2023 down 18.7% falling
148 Palau 416.5 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.0% rising
149 Mauritius 388.9 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.4% falling
150 Seychelles 337 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
151 Comoros 316 Square kilometres 2023 down 12.2% falling
152 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 285.4 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
153 Guam 280 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.8% rising
154 Northern Mariana Islands 243.6 Square kilometres 2023 down 18.3% falling
155 Saint Lucia 207.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
156 United States Virgin Islands 203.6 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.9% falling
157 Niue 189 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.5% flat
158 Grenada 177 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
159 American Samoa 170.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.7% falling
160 Andorra 160 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
161 Cook Islands 155.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
162 Singapore 150.3 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.5% flat
163 Mayotte 137.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.6% falling
164 Cayman Islands 125.93 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.0% flat
165 Saint Kitts and Nevis 110 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
166 Turks and Caicos Islands 105.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
167 Marshall Islands 94 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
168 Tonga 89.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
169 Antigua and Barbuda 79.26 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.6% falling
170 Liechtenstein 67 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
171 Barbados 63 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
172 Kuwait 62.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
173 Djibouti 60.44 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.9% flat
174 Wallis and Futuna 58.3 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.1% flat
175 British Virgin Islands 36.2 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% flat
176 Pitcairn 35 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
177 Montserrat 25 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
178 Oman 23.59 Square kilometres 2023 down 21.4% falling
179 Saint Helena 20 Square kilometres 2022 unchanged flat
180 Kiribati 11.8 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
181 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 11.6 Square kilometres 2023 down 15.6% falling
182 Bermuda 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
182 San Marino 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
182 Tuvalu 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
185 Maldives 8.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
186 Bahrain 7.6 Square kilometres 2023 up 33.8% rising
187 Norfolk Island 4.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
188 Malta 4.6 Square kilometres 2023 up 31.4% rising
189 Aruba 4.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
190 Greenland 2.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
191 Faroe Islands 0.8 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
192 Curaçao 0.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
193 Gibraltar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Monaco 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Nauru 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Qatar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Tokelau 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Holy See 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
193 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat

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

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About this data

Indicator
Land use hidden — Forest
Unit
Square kilometres
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
227 places, 7,590 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed

Land resources are one of the four components of the natural environment: water, air, land and living resources. In this context land is both: a physical "milieu" necessary for the development of natural vegetation as well as cultivated vegetation; a resource for human activities. The data presented here give information concerning land use state and changes (e.g. agricultural land, forest land). Data source(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., (FAOSTAT) Contact: ENV.Stat@oecd.org Dataset release date: June 3, 2024 Database documentation Countries metadata