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Land use hidden — Planted 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
1.23 million Square kilometres
OECD
Lowest
0 Square kilometres
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Median
595 Square kilometres
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
7,122

What the numbers show

Land use hidden — Planted Forest is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 1.23 million Square kilometres in OECD; the lowest is 0 Square kilometres in Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

The median across all reporting countries is 595 Square kilometres, and the mean is 21,761 Square kilometres.

Over the past decade 82 countries rose and 29 fell. The largest increase was in Nicaragua (up 162.0%), and the largest decrease in Comoros (down 100.0%).

Land use hidden — Planted Forest: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 OECD 1.23 million Square kilometres 2023 up 7.3% rising
2 China 880,345 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.7% rising
3 United States 275,210 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.7% rising
4 Canada 194,449 Square kilometres 2023 up 27.7% rising
5 Russian Federation 188,801 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.4% rising
6 Sweden 144,324 Square kilometres 2023 up 11.6% rising
7 India 134,167 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.8% rising
8 Brazil 123,040 Square kilometres 2023 up 38.3% rising
9 Japan 101,840 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% flat
10 Finland 73,681 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.6% rising
11 Germany 57,095 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.0% flat
12 Ukraine 48,410 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.2% rising
13 Indonesia 43,911 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.9% rising
14 Thailand 34,380 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.3% rising
15 Chile 32,812 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.9% rising
16 South Africa 31,436 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
17 United Kingdom 28,714 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.6% rising
18 Spain 25,936 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% rising
19 France 25,390 Square kilometres 2023 up 16.2% rising
20 Czechia 25,314 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.1% flat
21 Australia 23,903 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.1% rising
22 Uzbekistan 23,299 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.5% rising
23 Portugal 22,560 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.6% rising
24 Belarus 22,431 Square kilometres 2023 up 2.6% rising
25 New Zealand 21,335 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.4% rising
26 Lao People's Democratic Republic 18,239 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.6% rising
27 Malaysia 16,734 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.1% falling
28 Austria 16,697 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.4% flat
29 Argentina 15,276 Square kilometres 2023 up 22.6% rising
30 Venezuela 13,609 Square kilometres 2023 up 12.7% rising
31 Uruguay 12,450 Square kilometres 2023 up 20.4% rising
32 Peru 11,072 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.3% rising
33 Iran 10,374 Square kilometres 2023 up 10.2% rising
34 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 9,775 Square kilometres 2023 down 3.3% falling
35 Romania 8,951 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.3% rising
36 Angola 7,870 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.9% falling
37 Hungary 7,857 Square kilometres 2023 down 1.0% flat
38 Bulgaria 7,470 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.0% falling
39 Ireland 6,862 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.5% rising
40 Morocco 6,659 Square kilometres 2023 up 19.9% rising
41 Italy 6,482 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.7% rising
42 Cambodia 6,398 Square kilometres 2023 up 64.7% volatile
43 Algeria 6,271 Square kilometres 2023 up 17.7% rising
44 Mali 5,680 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.2% volatile
45 Tanzania, United Republic of 5,530 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
46 Cuba 5,327 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.4% rising
47 Uganda 4,947 Square kilometres 2023 up 24.8% rising
48 Belgium 4,382 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.0% rising
49 Colombia 4,274 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.0% rising
50 Myanmar 4,271 Square kilometres 2023 up 16.8% volatile
51 Kazakhstan 4,207 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.2% falling
52 Philippines 3,895 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.3% rising
53 Denmark 3,805 Square kilometres 2023 down 16.3% falling
54 Ghana 3,188 Square kilometres 2023 up 30.5% volatile
55 Azerbaijan 3,149 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.7% flat
56 Kyrgyzstan 2,557 Square kilometres 2023 up 33.2% rising
57 Pakistan 2,539 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
58 Sri Lanka 2,507 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.4% flat
59 Nepal 2,206 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
60 Tunisia 2,195 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.3% rising
61 Libya 2,170 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
62 Dominican Republic 2,139 Square kilometres 2023 up 71.9% volatile
63 Nigeria 2,114 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.2% falling
64 Burkina Faso 1,935 Square kilometres 2023 up 39.2% volatile
65 Paraguay 1,899 Square kilometres 2023 up 139.1% volatile
66 Guatemala 1,640 Square kilometres 2023 up 32.5% volatile
67 Bangladesh 1,581 Square kilometres 2023 up 27.9% rising
68 Rwanda 1,530 Square kilometres 2023 up 8.0% rising
69 Kenya 1,528 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
70 Switzerland 1,455 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.3% falling
71 Greece 1,389 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
72 Niger 1,300 Square kilometres 2023 up 23.6% rising
72 Sudan 1,300 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.9% flat
74 Tajikistan 1,194 Square kilometres 2023 up 3.7% rising
75 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,193 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
76 Burundi 1,130 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
77 Mexico 1,103 Square kilometres 2023 up 43.4% rising
78 Norway 1,080 Square kilometres 2023 down 2.5% falling
78 Zimbabwe 1,080 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged falling
80 Iraq 1,023 Square kilometres 2023 up 48.3% rising
81 Ecuador 1,015 Square kilometres 2023 down 7.8% rising
82 Costa Rica 926 Square kilometres 2023 up 27.5% rising
83 Israel 850 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.1% rising
84 Nicaragua 813.5 Square kilometres 2023 up 162.0% volatile
85 Trinidad and Tobago 807 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
86 Mozambique 806.66 Square kilometres 2023 up 31.3% rising
87 Georgia 719.7 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
88 Albania 703.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
89 Malawi 694 Square kilometres 2023 down 23.3% falling
90 Panama 674.2 Square kilometres 2023 up 13.9% rising
91 Cameroon 671 Square kilometres 2023 up 42.5% rising
92 Togo 647.2 Square kilometres 2023 up 26.1% rising
93 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 626 Square kilometres 2023 up 15.5% rising
94 Papua New Guinea 607.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
95 Congo 595 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
96 Guam 591.11 Square kilometres 2023 — volatile
97 Guinea 585.93 Square kilometres 2023 up 11.4% rising
98 Zambia 514 Square kilometres 2023 down 4.3% falling
99 Eritrea 479.93 Square kilometres 2023 up 38.9% rising
100 Jordan 469 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
101 Egypt 449.8 Square kilometres 2023 down 18.7% falling
102 Iceland 414.03 Square kilometres 2023 up 17.4% rising
103 Cyprus 329 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.2% rising
104 Haiti 320 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.3% rising
104 Senegal 320 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
106 Gabon 300 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
106 Luxembourg 300 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
108 Liberia 296.24 Square kilometres 2023 up 41.1% volatile
109 Benin 274.07 Square kilometres 2023 up 29.3% rising
110 Solomon Islands 235.5 Square kilometres 2023 down 9.2% falling
111 Sierra Leone 233.2 Square kilometres 2023 up 40.5% rising
112 Bhutan 211.5 Square kilometres 2023 up 5.4% rising
113 Chad 207 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.6% rising
114 El Salvador 183.76 Square kilometres 2023 up 16.2% rising
115 Mauritius 179.2 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.6% flat
116 Armenia 178.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 10.5% rising
117 Suriname 141.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
118 Côte d’Ivoire 139.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
119 Réunion 107 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
120 New Caledonia 103.9 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
121 French Polynesia 94.6 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
122 Jamaica 84.1 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.1% flat
123 Mongolia 76.8 Square kilometres 2023 down 11.1% rising
124 Kuwait 62.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
125 Brunei Darussalam 52.6 Square kilometres 2023 up 15.9% volatile
126 Samoa 50.4 Square kilometres 2023 down 0.1% flat
127 Seychelles 49 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
128 Saint Lucia 31.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
129 Marshall Islands 31.3 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
130 Somalia 30 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
131 Martinique 27 Square kilometres 2023 up 0.3% rising
132 Belize 24.2 Square kilometres 2023 up 4.8% rising
133 Central African Republic 20 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
134 Gambia 17.8 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
135 Guinea-Bissau 11.54 Square kilometres 2023 up 42.1% rising
136 Cook Islands 11 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
137 Bahrain 10 Square kilometres 2023 up 76.1% rising
137 Tonga 10 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
139 Dominica 8.1 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
140 French Guiana 8 Square kilometres 2023 up 14.3% rising
141 Wallis and Futuna 6.3 Square kilometres 2023 up 6.1% rising
142 Liechtenstein 6 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged rising
143 Mayotte 5.8 Square kilometres 2023 up 19.8% rising
144 Guadeloupe 5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
145 Djibouti 4.44 Square kilometres 2023 — volatile
146 Oman 3.59 Square kilometres 2023 down 64.1% falling
147 Lebanon 3.5 Square kilometres 2023 up 1.2% falling
148 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3 Square kilometres 2023 up 29.3% volatile
149 Greenland 2.2 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
150 Grenada 2.1 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
151 Faroe Islands 0.8 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
152 Norfolk Island 0.5 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
153 Malta 0.4 Square kilometres 2023 — volatile
154 Niue 0.1 Square kilometres 2023 unchanged flat
155 Aruba 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Afghanistan 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
155 Andorra 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
155 American Samoa 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Bahamas 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Barbados 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Botswana 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Comoros 0 Square kilometres 2023 down 100.0% volatile
155 Cayman Islands 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Gibraltar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Guyana 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Honduras 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Monaco 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Maldives 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Namibia 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Nauru 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Puerto Rico 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
155 Qatar 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Saudi Arabia 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Singapore 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 San Marino 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Sao Tome and Principe 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Turkmenistan 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Tuvalu 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 United States Virgin Islands 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Yemen 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Montserrat 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Saint Helena 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
155 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Tokelau 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Holy See 0 Square kilometres 2023 — flat
155 Curaçao 0 Square kilometres 2022 — flat
155 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 — Planted Forest
Unit
Square kilometres
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
213 places, 7,122 data points, 1990–2023
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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