Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly...

Countries reporting
241
Highest
939,327 1000 ha
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 1000 ha
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Median
1,253 1000 ha
Years covered
31
1992–2022
Data points
8,231

What the numbers show

Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC is currently reported for 241 countries. The highest value is 939,327 1000 ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,253 1000 ha, and the mean is 17,758 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 125 countries rose and 94 fell. The largest increase was in Aruba (up 237.5%), and the largest decrease in Mauritius (down 23.1%).

Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 939,327 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% flat
2 Brazil 439,088 1000 ha 2022 up 0.9% falling
3 Canada 436,843 1000 ha 2022 down 1.3% flat
4 China 188,821 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% flat
5 China, mainland 186,559 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% flat
6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 185,074 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
7 Indonesia 117,641 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% falling
8 Australia and New Zealand 84,171 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
9 Peru 81,843 1000 ha 2022 up 0.5% flat
10 Australia 76,530 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% flat
11 Colombia 74,493 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
12 Angola 74,245 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% flat
13 Mexico 72,332 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
14 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 57,532 1000 ha 2022 down 1.5% falling
15 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 51,213 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
16 India 50,437 1000 ha 2022 up 3.9% flat
17 Zambia 46,671 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
18 Melanesia 45,155 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% flat
19 Mozambique 44,995 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% falling
20 Papua New Guinea 39,084 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
21 United Republic of Tanzania 37,312 1000 ha 2022 up 2.1% flat
22 Cameroon 35,626 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
23 Argentina 35,616 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% falling
24 Sudan (former) 32,911 1000 ha 2011 up 4.0% rising
25 Myanmar 29,751 1000 ha 2022 up 2.0% flat
26 Sweden 27,702 1000 ha 2022 down 4.8% falling
27 Congo 26,955 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
28 South Sudan 25,502 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% flat
29 Ethiopia 25,465 1000 ha 2022 up 7.8% rising
30 Japan 25,112 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
31 Gabon 23,307 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
32 Finland 22,515 1000 ha 2022 down 3.0% flat
33 Madagascar 22,264 1000 ha 2022 up 0.0% flat
34 Nigeria 22,091 1000 ha 2022 up 7.7% rising
35 Malaysia 21,851 1000 ha 2022 down 2.6% falling
36 Chile 20,466 1000 ha 2022 down 1.5% flat
37 Guyana 19,209 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
38 Ecuador 17,508 1000 ha 2022 up 2.0% flat
39 Guinea 16,499 1000 ha 2022 up 1.5% flat
40 Paraguay 16,070 1000 ha 2022 down 6.1% falling
41 Türkiye 15,027 1000 ha 2022 up 1.9% flat
42 France 14,056 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
43 Suriname 13,815 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
44 Norway 13,638 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
45 Côte d'Ivoire 13,148 1000 ha 2022 up 3.9% flat
46 Spain 12,595 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% flat
47 Zimbabwe 11,596 1000 ha 2022 up 3.5% rising
48 Philippines 11,537 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
49 Thailand 11,312 1000 ha 2022 up 3.4% flat
50 Viet Nam 10,925 1000 ha 2022 up 3.1% falling
51 Germany 10,802 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
52 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10,787 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
53 Kazakhstan 10,410 1000 ha 2022 up 8.1% rising
54 Caribbean 9,734 1000 ha 2022 down 1.2% flat
55 Mongolia 9,721 1000 ha 2022 up 6.8% flat
56 Poland 9,639 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% flat
57 Ghana 9,365 1000 ha 2022 up 6.4% rising
58 Ukraine 9,311 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% rising
59 Belarus 8,874 1000 ha 2022 up 1.4% flat
60 Italy 8,713 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
61 Sudan 8,588 1000 ha 2022 up 7.1% rising
62 French Guiana 8,081 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
63 Honduras 7,780 1000 ha 2022 down 2.1% flat
64 Nicaragua 7,739 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% falling
65 Romania 7,703 1000 ha 2022 down 1.0% flat
66 New Zealand 7,640 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
67 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 7,414 1000 ha 2022 down 2.4% falling
68 Kenya 7,229 1000 ha 2022 up 13.1% flat
69 Nepal 7,157 1000 ha 2022 up 1.1% flat
70 Cambodia 7,099 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% falling
71 Guatemala 6,970 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% falling
72 Chad 6,237 1000 ha 2022 up 6.6% flat
73 Uganda 5,916 1000 ha 2022 up 9.0% rising
74 Panama 5,034 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
75 Namibia 4,997 1000 ha 2022 up 7.7% rising
76 Botswana 4,929 1000 ha 2022 up 8.7% rising
77 Republic of Korea 4,895 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% falling
78 Benin 4,612 1000 ha 2022 up 15.6% rising
79 Liberia 4,529 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% falling
80 Cuba 4,311 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
81 Bulgaria 4,288 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% rising
82 Senegal 4,063 1000 ha 2022 up 4.3% rising
83 Austria 4,049 1000 ha 2022 down 3.0% falling
84 Serbia and Montenegro 3,920 1000 ha 2005 up 1.6% flat
85 Costa Rica 3,856 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% rising
86 Mali 3,754 1000 ha 2022 up 9.8% rising
87 Latvia 3,494 1000 ha 2022 up 0.3% falling
88 Georgia 3,383 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
89 Greece 3,225 1000 ha 2022 up 1.6% flat
90 Serbia 3,199 1000 ha 2022 down 1.2% flat
91 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 3,127 1000 ha 2022 up 2.2% flat
92 Bhutan 3,018 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% rising
93 Portugal 2,995 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% falling
94 Somalia 2,834 1000 ha 2022 up 21.0% rising
95 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2,756 1000 ha 2022 down 1.9% falling
96 Czechia 2,708 1000 ha 2022 down 2.7% flat
97 Pakistan 2,523 1000 ha 2022 up 5.2% flat
98 Estonia 2,518 1000 ha 2022 down 0.8% falling
99 Malawi 2,514 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% falling
100 Solomon Islands 2,480 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% flat
101 Togo 2,460 1000 ha 2022 up 9.5% rising
102 Croatia 2,389 1000 ha 2022 down 2.4% falling
103 Equatorial Guinea 2,363 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
104 Dominican Republic 2,356 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% rising
105 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2,336 1000 ha 2022 up 2.2% rising
106 Sierra Leone 2,233 1000 ha 2022 up 1.0% flat
107 Slovakia 2,226 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% flat
108 China, Taiwan Province of 2,211 1000 ha 2022 down 1.2% flat
109 Uruguay 2,199 1000 ha 2022 up 6.3% rising
110 Lithuania 2,178 1000 ha 2022 up 1.7% flat
111 Guinea-Bissau 1,948 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
112 Sri Lanka 1,822 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% falling
113 Hungary 1,716 1000 ha 2022 up 0.0% rising
114 Belize 1,692 1000 ha 2022 down 2.8% falling
115 Morocco 1,637 1000 ha 2022 up 4.6% flat
116 Algeria 1,634 1000 ha 2022 up 3.4% rising
117 Burkina Faso 1,593 1000 ha 2022 up 12.9% rising
118 Kyrgyzstan 1,528 1000 ha 2022 up 8.6% rising
119 El Salvador 1,451 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% rising
120 Switzerland 1,340 1000 ha 2022 down 3.2% falling
121 Fiji 1,253 1000 ha 2022 down 2.9% flat
122 Azerbaijan 1,247 1000 ha 2022 up 6.8% flat
123 New Caledonia 1,214 1000 ha 2022 down 1.7% flat
124 Slovenia 1,200 1000 ha 2022 down 3.1% falling
125 Afghanistan 1,196 1000 ha 2022 up 2.8% falling
126 Vanuatu 1,125 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% rising
127 North Macedonia 1,104 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% rising
128 Bangladesh 920.88 1000 ha 2022 up 10.8% rising
129 Albania 881.6 1000 ha 2022 up 4.7% rising
130 Niger 861.8 1000 ha 2022 up 6.7% flat
131 Jamaica 778.25 1000 ha 2022 down 2.6% falling
132 Belgium-Luxembourg 765.7 1000 ha 1999 down 4.5% flat
133 Montenegro 717.8 1000 ha 2022 down 2.1% flat
134 Belgium 672.1 1000 ha 2022 up 1.1% flat
135 Armenia 657.99 1000 ha 2022 up 3.7% flat
136 Eswatini 635.69 1000 ha 2022 down 0.5% falling
137 Puerto Rico 592.67 1000 ha 2022 down 1.8% rising
138 Denmark 520.22 1000 ha 2022 up 3.1% flat
139 Brunei Darussalam 504.06 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% flat
140 Eritrea 494.17 1000 ha 2022 up 12.5% rising
141 Yemen 482.63 1000 ha 2022 up 4.3% rising
142 Ireland 466.06 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% rising
143 Bahamas 419.21 1000 ha 2022 down 2.3% rising
144 Haiti 416.63 1000 ha 2022 down 3.2% flat
145 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 386.56 1000 ha 2022 up 2.0% rising
146 Trinidad and Tobago 374.83 1000 ha 2022 down 1.9% flat
147 Timor-Leste 362.66 1000 ha 2022 up 3.0% rising
148 Tunisia 331.29 1000 ha 2022 up 3.7% rising
149 Polynesia 324.2 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
150 Rwanda 309.53 1000 ha 2022 up 7.2% flat
151 Uzbekistan 305.39 1000 ha 2022 up 26.7% rising
152 Republic of Moldova 301.31 1000 ha 2022 up 1.3% rising
153 Tajikistan 289 1000 ha 2022 up 9.5% rising
154 Mauritania 275.86 1000 ha 2022 up 8.5% flat
155 Syrian Arab Republic 273.67 1000 ha 2022 up 4.1% flat
156 Iraq 266.34 1000 ha 2022 up 9.6% rising
157 Burundi 258.25 1000 ha 2022 up 7.2% falling
158 Lesotho 186.42 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% flat
159 Cyprus 183.6 1000 ha 2022 up 1.8% flat
160 Saudi Arabia 158.1 1000 ha 2022 up 30.9% rising
161 Libya 149.81 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% falling
162 Gambia 135.85 1000 ha 2022 up 13.2% rising
163 Greenland 133.38 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
164 French Polynesia 126.63 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
165 Samoa 120.64 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
166 Comoros 107.62 1000 ha 2022 down 4.6% falling
167 Guadeloupe 93.64 1000 ha 2022 down 18.3% falling
168 Turkmenistan 93.21 1000 ha 2022 up 14.5% rising
169 Sao Tome and Principe 84.72 1000 ha 2022 down 0.6% flat
170 Israel 84.42 1000 ha 2022 up 7.8% rising
171 Martinique 80.54 1000 ha 2022 down 3.2% flat
172 Luxembourg 75.63 1000 ha 2022 up 2.8% flat
173 Dominica 69.74 1000 ha 2022 down 0.4% flat
174 Egypt 67.14 1000 ha 2022 up 48.0% rising
175 Micronesia 61.48 1000 ha 2022 down 6.3% falling
176 United Arab Emirates 58.66 1000 ha 2022 up 11.0% rising
177 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 58.53 1000 ha 2022 up 2.9% rising
178 Saint Lucia 53.08 1000 ha 2022 down 0.9% flat
179 Lebanon 52.96 1000 ha 2022 up 5.4% rising
180 China, Hong Kong SAR 50.38 1000 ha 2022 down 4.0% rising
181 Oman 47.42 1000 ha 2022 up 10.0% rising
182 Mauritius 41.88 1000 ha 2022 down 23.1% falling
183 Iceland 37.9 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
184 Palestine 36.23 1000 ha 2022 up 10.0% rising
185 Tonga 33.94 1000 ha 2022 down 0.2% flat
186 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 31.7 1000 ha 2022 down 0.3% flat
187 Grenada 30.17 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
188 Netherlands Antilles (former) 29 1000 ha 2022 up 0.6% flat
189 Mayotte 28.49 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
190 Andorra 27.44 1000 ha 2022 down 2.0% flat
191 Micronesia (Federated States of) 26.62 1000 ha 2022 down 0.0% flat
192 Palau 25.79 1000 ha 2022 down 13.8% falling
193 Niue 19.91 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
194 Jordan 19.14 1000 ha 2022 up 20.9% rising
195 Turks and Caicos Islands 16.81 1000 ha 2022 down 1.1% flat
196 Antigua and Barbuda 16.62 1000 ha 2022 down 11.4% flat
197 United States Virgin Islands 16.58 1000 ha 2022 down 1.6% rising
198 Saint Kitts and Nevis 16.06 1000 ha 2022 down 4.9% flat
199 Qatar 13.26 1000 ha 2022 up 25.3% rising
200 Faroe Islands 11.9 1000 ha 2022 up 0.1% flat
201 Singapore 10.65 1000 ha 2022 up 6.6% rising
202 Cabo Verde 10.63 1000 ha 2022 up 16.3% rising
203 Cayman Islands 9.64 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
204 Cook Islands 9.54 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
205 Kuwait 8.84 1000 ha 2022 up 36.4% rising
206 Northern Mariana Islands 8.09 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
207 Liechtenstein 7.66 1000 ha 2022 down 7.3% falling
208 Barbados 7.47 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% rising
209 Montserrat 7.15 1000 ha 2022 down 0.7% flat
210 Isle of Man 6.67 1000 ha 2022 up 2.3% rising
211 British Virgin Islands 5.75 1000 ha 2022 down 4.5% falling
212 Seychelles 5.03 1000 ha 2022 up 0.2% flat
213 Wallis and Futuna Islands 4.56 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
214 Bahrain 4.18 1000 ha 2022 up 17.4% rising
215 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 3.6 1000 ha 2022 down 5.3% falling
216 French Southern Territories 2.83 1000 ha 2022 up 0.7% flat
217 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 2.8 1000 ha 2022 up 1.8% flat
218 Channel Islands 2.47 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
219 Djibouti 2.27 1000 ha 2022 up 15.2% rising
220 Malta 1.73 1000 ha 2022 up 4.8% rising
221 Aruba 0.81 1000 ha 2022 up 237.5% volatile
221 Anguilla 0.81 1000 ha 2022 up 1.2% rising
223 Western Sahara 0.51 1000 ha 2022 up 64.5% rising
224 Guam 0.43 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
224 San Marino 0.43 1000 ha 2022 up 2.4% rising
226 Norfolk Island 0.39 1000 ha 2022 unchanged falling
227 China, Macao SAR 0.32 1000 ha 2022 up 10.3% rising
228 Kiribati 0.25 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
229 Gibraltar 0.16 1000 ha 2022 down 5.9% flat
230 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0.14 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
231 Marshall Islands 0.13 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
232 Bermuda 0.1 1000 ha 2022 up 11.1% flat
232 Tuvalu 0.1 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
234 Maldives 0.05 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
235 Naoero 0.03 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
236 Monaco 0.02 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
237 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
237 Antarctica 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
237 Pitcairn 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
237 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0 1000 ha 2022 flat
237 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha 2022 flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.