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Land use hidden — Naturally regenerating 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
189
Highest
9.77 million Square kilometres
OECD
Lowest
0 Square kilometres
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Median
13,505 Square kilometres
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
7,126

What the numbers show

Land use hidden — Naturally regenerating forest is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 9.77 million Square kilometres in OECD; the lowest is 0 Square kilometres in Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

The median across all reporting countries is 13,505 Square kilometres, and the mean is 237,772 Square kilometres.

Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 95 fell. The largest increase was in Denmark (up 62.1%), and the largest decrease in Côte d’Ivoire (down 31.2%).

Land use hidden — Naturally regenerating forest: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 9.77 million Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
2 Russian Federation 7.96 million Square kilometres 2023 up 0.1% flat
3 Brazil 4.81 million Square kilometres 2023 down 3.5% falling
4 Canada 3.27 million Square kilometres 2023 down 1.4% flat
5 United States 2.82 million Square kilometres 2023 down 0.4% flat
6 China 1.38 million Square kilometres 2023 up 6.1% rising
7 Australia 1.32 million Square kilometres 2023 up 1.7% flat
8 Indonesia 859,255 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.0% falling
9 Peru 707,047 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.5% falling
10 Mexico 651,985 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.0% falling
11 Angola 641,552 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.9% falling
12 India 595,425 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.8% flat
13 Colombia 581,166 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.1% falling
14 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 501,437 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.3% falling
15 Venezuela 447,120 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.4% falling
16 Zambia 441,980 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% falling
17 Tanzania, United Republic of 437,850 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.3% falling
18 Mozambique 359,458 Square kilometres 2023 down 6.1% falling
19 Papua New Guinea 356,944 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.9% flat
20 Myanmar 272,477 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.8% falling
21 Argentina 267,186 Square kilometres 2023 down 5.6% falling
22 Gabon 234,649 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.5% flat
23 Central African Republic 222,110 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.3% flat
24 Congo 218,415 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% flat
25 Nigeria 209,257 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.2% falling
26 Cameroon 201,054 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.8% falling
27 Guyana 183,877 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.5% flat
28 Sudan 177,131 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.8% falling
29 Malaysia 172,902 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.4% falling
30 Zimbabwe 171,984 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.6% falling
31 Thailand 163,270 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.3% falling
32 Spain 159,915 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% rising
33 Chile 152,983 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.1% rising
34 Suriname 151,454 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.7% flat
35 Paraguay 150,743 Square kilometres 2023 down 17.4% falling
36 Finland 150,409 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.8% falling
37 France 149,642 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.3% rising
38 Botswana 148,998 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.4% falling
39 Japan 147,510 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% flat
40 Lao People's Democratic Republic 146,681 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.4% falling
41 Mongolia 141,618 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
42 South Africa 137,973 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.6% falling
43 Sweden 135,476 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.2% falling
44 Mali 127,280 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% falling
45 Ecuador 122,035 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.6% falling
46 Norway 120,954 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.7% flat
47 Iran 97,510 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% rising
48 Italy 90,794 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.2% rising
49 French Guiana 79,918 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.4% flat
50 Senegal 79,162 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.8% falling
51 New Zealand 78,168 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
52 Ghana 76,886 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.4% falling
53 Liberia 74,970 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.0% falling
54 Cambodia 69,615 Square kilometres 2023 down 24.0% falling
55 Philippines 69,037 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.8% falling
56 Belarus 65,680 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.9% flat
57 Namibia 64,259 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.0% falling
58 Honduras 62,964 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.3% falling
59 Romania 60,340 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.3% flat
60 Guinea 60,104 Square kilometres 2023 down 6.2% falling
61 Burkina Faso 58,729 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.6% falling
62 Somalia 57,468 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.8% falling
63 Nepal 57,414 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.0% flat
64 Germany 57,095 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
65 Morocco 51,079 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
66 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 49,888 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.5% falling
67 Ukraine 48,670 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.2% flat
68 Turkmenistan 41,270 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
69 Panama 41,122 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.9% falling
70 Chad 39,597 Square kilometres 2023 down 22.8% falling
71 Greece 37,629 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% rising
72 Kenya 34,583 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.5% falling
73 Pakistan 33,480 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.6% falling
74 Guatemala 33,290 Square kilometres 2023 down 5.3% falling
75 Bulgaria 31,850 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.1% rising
76 Kazakhstan 31,217 Square kilometres 2023 up 12.0% rising
77 Nicaragua 30,262 Square kilometres 2023 down 24.1% falling
78 Costa Rica 29,914 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.0% flat
79 Benin 29,577 Square kilometres 2023 down 14.6% falling
80 Georgia 27,504 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
81 Bhutan 27,099 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.7% rising
82 Cuba 27,093 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.5% rising
83 Solomon Islands 24,972 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% flat
84 Côte d’Ivoire 24,841 Square kilometres 2023 down 31.2% falling
85 Sierra Leone 24,524 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.7% falling
86 Austria 22,402 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.9% rising
87 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20,572 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.8% flat
88 Malawi 20,463 Square kilometres 2023 down 16.3% falling
89 Dominican Republic 19,544 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% rising
90 Guinea-Bissau 19,535 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.2% falling
91 Sri Lanka 18,528 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.8% falling
92 Bangladesh 17,253 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.1% falling
93 Uganda 17,195 Square kilometres 2023 down 22.9% falling
94 Uzbekistan 14,373 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.2% flat
95 Algeria 13,505 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% rising
96 Hungary 12,630 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.1% flat
97 Belize 12,412 Square kilometres 2023 down 8.3% falling
98 Afghanistan 12,080 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.0% flat
99 Togo 11,357 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.6% falling
100 Switzerland 11,339 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.2% rising
101 Kyrgyzstan 11,144 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.0% rising
102 Portugal 10,560 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.0% falling
103 Eritrea 9,978 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.3% falling
104 Saudi Arabia 9,770 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
105 Niger 9,124 Square kilometres 2023 down 14.0% falling
106 Azerbaijan 8,515 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.5% rising
107 Uruguay 8,490 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.8% rising
108 New Caledonia 8,273 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
109 Iraq 7,227 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.4% flat
110 Albania 7,117 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
111 Jamaica 6,001 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.9% rising
112 El Salvador 5,520 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.9% falling
113 Yemen 5,490 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
114 Bahamas 5,099 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
115 Puerto Rico 4,978 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.0% rising
116 Tunisia 4,878 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
117 Brunei Darussalam 3,747 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% falling
118 United Kingdom 3,440 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
119 Armenia 3,100 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
120 Tajikistan 3,074 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.8% flat
121 Haiti 3,060 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.7% falling
122 Belgium 2,511 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.9% falling
123 Denmark 2,508 Square kilometres 2023 up 62.1% rising
124 Gambia 2,237 Square kilometres 2023 down 20.4% falling
125 Burundi 1,667 Square kilometres 2023 up 25.9% rising
126 Samoa 1,552 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.0% falling
127 Czechia 1,511 Square kilometres 2023 up 45.2% rising
128 Trinidad and Tobago 1,462 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.8% falling
129 Lebanon 1,448 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.3% flat
130 French Polynesia 1,400 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
131 Cyprus 1,396 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.6% flat
132 Rwanda 1,260 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% falling
133 Ireland 1,078 Square kilometres 2023 up 19.2% rising
134 Réunion 891.8 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.5% rising
135 Guadeloupe 712.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.3% flat
136 Luxembourg 587 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
137 Israel 550 Square kilometres 2023 down 23.6% falling
138 Jordan 506 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
139 Martinique 501.9 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.1% rising
140 Sao Tome and Principe 500.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.0% falling
141 Dominica 470.6 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
142 Comoros 317.2 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.4% falling
143 Seychelles 288 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
144 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 282.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% flat
145 Guam 280 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.8% rising
146 Northern Mariana Islands 243.6 Square kilometres 2023 down 18.3% falling
147 Mauritius 209.7 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.2% falling
148 United States Virgin Islands 203.6 Square kilometres 2023 up 7.9% falling
149 Niue 188.9 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.5% flat
150 Saint Lucia 176.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
151 Grenada 174.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
152 American Samoa 170.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.7% falling
153 Andorra 160 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
154 Singapore 150.3 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.5% flat
155 Cook Islands 144.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
156 Mayotte 131.6 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.4% falling
157 Cayman Islands 125.93 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.0% flat
158 Iceland 119.1 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.6% rising
159 Turks and Caicos Islands 105.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
160 Tonga 79.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
161 Barbados 63 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
162 Marshall Islands 62.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
163 Liechtenstein 61 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
164 Djibouti 56 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
165 Wallis and Futuna 52 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% falling
166 Montserrat 25 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
167 Oman 20 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
167 Saint Helena 20 Square kilometres 2022 unchanged flat
169 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 11.6 Square kilometres 2023 down 15.6% falling
170 San Marino 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
170 Tuvalu 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
172 Maldives 8.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
173 Norfolk Island 4.4 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
174 Aruba 4.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
174 Malta 4.2 Square kilometres 2023 up 20.0% rising
176 Curaçao 0.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
177 Bahrain 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
177 Egypt 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Faroe Islands 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Gibraltar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Greenland 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Kuwait 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Libya 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Monaco 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Nauru 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Qatar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Tokelau 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 Holy See 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
177 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 — Naturally regenerating forest
Unit
Square kilometres
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
213 places, 7,126 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