Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS 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
240
Highest
922,274 1000 ha
Russian Federation
Lowest
0 1000 ha
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Median
1,291 1000 ha
Years covered
24
2001–2024
Data points
6,390

What the numbers show

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS is currently reported for 240 countries. The highest value is 922,274 1000 ha in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0 1000 ha in Heard Island and McDonald Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 1,291 1000 ha, and the mean is 21,227 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 113 countries rose and 115 fell. The largest increase was in Saudi Arabia (up 463.7%), and the largest decrease in Niger (down 100.0%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 922,274 1000 ha 2024 up 0.4% flat
2 Brazil 597,725 1000 ha 2024 down 3.0% falling
3 Canada 501,610 1000 ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
4 China 270,880 1000 ha 2024 up 2.4% rising
5 China, mainland 268,203 1000 ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
6 Democratic Republic of the Congo 220,821 1000 ha 2024 down 0.4% flat
7 Indonesia 165,940 1000 ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
8 Colombia 101,965 1000 ha 2024 up 0.8% flat
9 Australia and New Zealand 95,988 1000 ha 2024 down 17.0% flat
10 Australia 80,274 1000 ha 2024 down 18.9% flat
11 Mexico 79,404 1000 ha 2024 down 3.6% flat
12 Peru 78,982 1000 ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
13 Angola 72,958 1000 ha 2024 down 4.3% falling
14 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 70,293 1000 ha 2024 down 3.6% flat
15 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 68,863 1000 ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
16 Argentina 58,070 1000 ha 2024 down 3.8% falling
17 India 56,132 1000 ha 2024 up 2.4% rising
18 Mozambique 55,386 1000 ha 2024 down 7.9% falling
19 Melanesia 50,572 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
20 Zambia 50,061 1000 ha 2024 down 6.6% falling
21 Myanmar 47,198 1000 ha 2024 down 1.5% flat
22 United Republic of Tanzania 46,236 1000 ha 2024 down 1.5% falling
23 Papua New Guinea 43,688 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
24 Cameroon 37,924 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
25 South Sudan 37,531 1000 ha 2024 up 12.0% rising
26 Sweden 35,828 1000 ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
27 Sudan (former) 33,352 1000 ha 2011 down 1.5% flat
28 Paraguay 30,765 1000 ha 2024 down 8.6% falling
29 Malaysia 30,122 1000 ha 2024 up 0.8% flat
30 Congo 29,947 1000 ha 2024 up 0.6% flat
31 Finland 28,993 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
32 Japan 28,713 1000 ha 2024 up 0.5% flat
33 France 27,424 1000 ha 2024 up 0.7% flat
34 Côte d'Ivoire 27,064 1000 ha 2024 down 1.6% flat
35 Chile 26,363 1000 ha 2024 down 2.3% flat
36 Thailand 25,944 1000 ha 2024 up 2.9% rising
37 Gabon 24,843 1000 ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
38 Ethiopia 23,753 1000 ha 2024 up 5.6% flat
39 Viet Nam 23,082 1000 ha 2024 up 1.6% flat
40 Philippines 22,466 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
41 Ecuador 22,058 1000 ha 2024 up 2.8% flat
42 Lao People's Democratic Republic 19,724 1000 ha 2024 down 5.1% falling
43 Guinea 19,671 1000 ha 2024 down 4.0% flat
44 Guyana 19,439 1000 ha 2024 down 0.1% flat
45 Spain 18,185 1000 ha 2024 up 2.8% rising
46 Madagascar 16,614 1000 ha 2024 down 10.5% falling
47 Germany 16,119 1000 ha 2024 down 1.0% flat
48 Caribbean 15,754 1000 ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
49 Türkiye 15,715 1000 ha 2024 up 13.3% rising
50 New Zealand 15,712 1000 ha 2024 down 5.9% flat
51 Nigeria 15,443 1000 ha 2024 down 18.1% falling
52 Suriname 13,949 1000 ha 2024 up 0.2% flat
53 Italy 13,923 1000 ha 2024 up 1.1% rising
54 Norway 13,486 1000 ha 2024 up 2.8% falling
55 Ukraine 13,088 1000 ha 2024 down 10.2% falling
56 Poland 12,853 1000 ha 2024 down 3.2% flat
57 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 12,772 1000 ha 2024 down 0.0% falling
58 Belarus 12,532 1000 ha 2024 down 2.5% flat
59 Romania 10,841 1000 ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
60 Nicaragua 10,340 1000 ha 2022 down 4.2% flat
61 Honduras 10,135 1000 ha 2024 down 1.2% flat
62 Ghana 10,020 1000 ha 2024 down 8.5% falling
63 Guatemala 9,815 1000 ha 2024 up 0.4% flat
64 Uganda 9,555 1000 ha 2024 down 5.0% falling
65 Liberia 9,470 1000 ha 2024 down 0.0% flat
66 Cambodia 9,296 1000 ha 2024 down 12.8% falling
67 Nepal 8,473 1000 ha 2024 up 2.8% rising
68 French Guiana 8,184 1000 ha 2024 up 0.0% flat
69 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 7,856 1000 ha 2024 up 3.0% flat
70 Uruguay 7,822 1000 ha 2024 up 18.0% rising
71 Cuba 7,543 1000 ha 2024 up 4.6% rising
72 Mongolia 7,232 1000 ha 2024 up 18.7% rising
73 Greece 7,007 1000 ha 2024 up 6.9% rising
74 Republic of Korea 6,821 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
75 Panama 6,779 1000 ha 2024 up 0.1% flat
76 Sierra Leone 6,529 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% flat
77 Kenya 5,661 1000 ha 2024 up 10.0% flat
78 Serbia and Montenegro 5,569 1000 ha 2005 flat
79 Austria 5,128 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% falling
80 Sri Lanka 5,044 1000 ha 2024 down 1.9% flat
81 Portugal 4,978 1000 ha 2024 down 6.1% flat
82 Serbia 4,859 1000 ha 2024 up 5.2% rising
83 Bulgaria 4,836 1000 ha 2024 down 2.7% rising
84 Latvia 4,703 1000 ha 2024 down 8.2% falling
85 Costa Rica 4,600 1000 ha 2024 down 1.2% flat
86 Georgia 4,049 1000 ha 2024 up 1.5% flat
87 Ireland 4,008 1000 ha 2024 down 2.8% flat
88 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,977 1000 ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
89 Dominican Republic 3,963 1000 ha 2024 up 1.1% flat
90 Croatia 3,782 1000 ha 2024 up 5.1% rising
91 Bangladesh 3,413 1000 ha 2024 up 3.0% falling
92 Czechia 3,400 1000 ha 2024 down 6.0% flat
93 Estonia 3,394 1000 ha 2024 down 3.6% falling
94 Zimbabwe 3,163 1000 ha 2024 down 37.7% falling
95 Bhutan 3,076 1000 ha 2024 up 1.8% flat
96 Lithuania 3,026 1000 ha 2024 down 15.5% falling
97 Kazakhstan 2,924 1000 ha 2024 up 6.5% rising
98 Malawi 2,918 1000 ha 2024 down 15.4% falling
99 Guinea-Bissau 2,772 1000 ha 2024 down 0.2% flat
100 Slovakia 2,752 1000 ha 2024 down 1.9% flat
101 Equatorial Guinea 2,612 1000 ha 2024 up 0.0% flat
102 China, Taiwan Province of 2,610 1000 ha 2024 down 2.2% flat
103 Solomon Islands 2,568 1000 ha 2024 up 0.7% flat
104 Pakistan 2,540 1000 ha 2024 up 42.1% rising
105 Chad 2,326 1000 ha 2024 down 22.3% falling
106 Benin 2,158 1000 ha 2024 down 23.5% falling
107 Hungary 2,119 1000 ha 2024 up 3.4% rising
108 Togo 2,095 1000 ha 2024 down 16.0% falling
109 Switzerland 1,997 1000 ha 2024 down 2.4% falling
110 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1,991 1000 ha 2024 down 1.2% flat
111 Belize 1,846 1000 ha 2024 down 3.1% falling
112 New Caledonia 1,717 1000 ha 2024 down 1.5% flat
113 Slovenia 1,712 1000 ha 2024 up 2.7% flat
114 El Salvador 1,673 1000 ha 2024 up 1.8% flat
115 Albania 1,648 1000 ha 2024 up 8.9% rising
116 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1,486 1000 ha 2024 up 8.1% flat
117 Haiti 1,455 1000 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
118 Fiji 1,443 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
119 Belgium 1,334 1000 ha 2024 up 8.4% flat
120 Timor-Leste 1,309 1000 ha 2024 up 1.2% flat
121 Algeria 1,273 1000 ha 2024 up 1.6% rising
122 North Macedonia 1,215 1000 ha 2024 up 2.5% rising
123 Vanuatu 1,155 1000 ha 2024 up 1.4% flat
124 Azerbaijan 1,154 1000 ha 2024 up 7.2% flat
125 Denmark 1,035 1000 ha 2024 up 0.5% falling
126 Montenegro 1,009 1000 ha 2024 up 0.3% flat
127 Jamaica 931.26 1000 ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
128 Burundi 864.11 1000 ha 2024 up 4.8% falling
129 Sudan 860.67 1000 ha 2024 up 26.8% rising
130 Eswatini 801.17 1000 ha 2024 up 26.5% rising
131 Morocco 793.88 1000 ha 2024 down 6.0% rising
132 Rwanda 658.09 1000 ha 2024 up 4.9% falling
133 Senegal 653.15 1000 ha 2024 down 26.9% rising
134 Afghanistan 605.46 1000 ha 2024 up 17.5% rising
135 Puerto Rico 605.33 1000 ha 2024 down 2.9% rising
136 Mali 560.84 1000 ha 2024 down 26.3% falling
137 Polynesia 555.2 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
138 Brunei Darussalam 544.2 1000 ha 2024 down 0.5% flat
139 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 533.62 1000 ha 2024 down 5.3% falling
140 Bahamas 456.91 1000 ha 2024 down 6.0% falling
141 Trinidad and Tobago 381.16 1000 ha 2024 down 2.6% flat
142 Somalia 350.43 1000 ha 2024 up 34.6% falling
143 Armenia 338.01 1000 ha 2024 down 4.2% falling
144 Iceland 321.22 1000 ha 2024 down 11.6% falling
145 Republic of Moldova 282.03 1000 ha 2024 up 2.3% rising
146 Samoa 263.8 1000 ha 2024 up 1.3% flat
147 Egypt 206.32 1000 ha 2024 down 17.8% falling
148 French Polynesia 205.61 1000 ha 2024 up 0.7% flat
149 Kyrgyzstan 191.7 1000 ha 2024 down 10.0% falling
150 Luxembourg 163.46 1000 ha 2024 up 8.8% flat
151 Tunisia 159.79 1000 ha 2024 down 12.1% rising
152 Cyprus 155.16 1000 ha 2024 up 62.4% rising
153 Syrian Arab Republic 149.14 1000 ha 2024 up 16.9% falling
154 French Southern Territories 143.84 1000 ha 2024 up 47.8% rising
155 Comoros 137.3 1000 ha 2024 down 4.1% flat
156 Micronesia 131.33 1000 ha 2024 down 2.5% rising
157 Yemen 122.96 1000 ha 2024 up 29.0% rising
158 Botswana 112.5 1000 ha 2024 up 16.2% falling
159 Lebanon 109.56 1000 ha 2024 up 49.4% rising
160 Guadeloupe 97.14 1000 ha 2024 down 14.2% rising
161 Sao Tome and Principe 94.69 1000 ha 2024 up 14.2% flat
162 Mauritius 89.97 1000 ha 2024 up 14.2% rising
163 Greenland 83.15 1000 ha 2024 up 70.8% flat
164 Dominica 69.95 1000 ha 2024 down 1.4% flat
165 China, Hong Kong SAR 66.41 1000 ha 2024 down 3.0% flat
166 Martinique 56.36 1000 ha 2024 up 2.2% flat
167 Micronesia (Federated States of) 44.1 1000 ha 2024 up 6.4% rising
168 Saint Lucia 43.88 1000 ha 2024 up 0.6% flat
169 Iraq 39.98 1000 ha 2024 down 78.3% falling
170 Israel 37.34 1000 ha 2024 up 29.7% rising
171 Isle of Man 36.64 1000 ha 2024 up 7.3% rising
172 Tonga 36.3 1000 ha 2024 down 4.9% rising
173 Tajikistan 33.11 1000 ha 2024 up 15.0% falling
174 Mayotte 29.25 1000 ha 2024 down 4.9% flat
175 Guam 29.02 1000 ha 2024 down 11.2% rising
176 Palau 28.81 1000 ha 2024 up 2.4% rising
177 Andorra 27.61 1000 ha 2024 up 7.8% falling
178 Grenada 27.22 1000 ha 2024 down 0.5% rising
179 Antigua and Barbuda 26.79 1000 ha 2024 down 10.6% flat
180 Northern Mariana Islands 26.28 1000 ha 2024 down 10.6% rising
181 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 24.61 1000 ha 2024 up 0.6% flat
182 Niue 24.25 1000 ha 2024 up 0.9% rising
183 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 17.76 1000 ha 2024 down 5.6% flat
184 Uzbekistan 17.21 1000 ha 2024 up 5.8% falling
185 Saudi Arabia 16.91 1000 ha 2024 up 463.7% volatile
186 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 16.12 1000 ha 2024 up 23.1% falling
187 United States Virgin Islands 16.01 1000 ha 2024 down 18.4% rising
188 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15.38 1000 ha 2024 down 16.0% rising
189 Seychelles 15.35 1000 ha 2024 down 10.9% rising
190 Singapore 14.83 1000 ha 2024 down 0.7% rising
191 Faroe Islands 13.86 1000 ha 2024 up 16.9% falling
192 Turks and Caicos Islands 12.03 1000 ha 2024 down 15.2% falling
193 Channel Islands 10.33 1000 ha 2024 up 5.5% flat
194 Liechtenstein 9.91 1000 ha 2024 down 6.7% falling
195 Cook Islands 9.89 1000 ha 2024 up 14.3% rising
196 Eritrea 9.05 1000 ha 2024 up 76.4% rising
197 Cayman Islands 8.92 1000 ha 2024 down 24.5% rising
198 Lesotho 7.68 1000 ha 2024 up 145.4% rising
199 Wallis and Futuna Islands 6.09 1000 ha 2024 down 6.9% rising
200 Gambia 5.47 1000 ha 2024 down 69.8% volatile
201 Montserrat 5.43 1000 ha 2024 up 15.3% rising
202 British Virgin Islands 5.09 1000 ha 2024 down 16.8% falling
203 Barbados 4.23 1000 ha 2024 up 5.8% rising
204 Netherlands Antilles (former) 3.19 1000 ha 2024 down 3.9% falling
205 San Marino 2.93 1000 ha 2024 down 10.4% rising
206 Namibia 2.85 1000 ha 2024 down 67.1% volatile
207 Norfolk Island 2.12 1000 ha 2024 down 4.9% flat
208 Jordan 1.85 1000 ha 2024 up 54.2% volatile
209 Anguilla 1.78 1000 ha 2024 down 9.6% falling
210 Naoero 1.35 1000 ha 2024 up 12.5% rising
211 Kiribati 1.3 1000 ha 2024 down 6.5% rising
212 Palestine 1.29 1000 ha 2024 up 37.2% rising
213 Oman 1.26 1000 ha 2024 down 86.6% falling
214 Turkmenistan 0.58 1000 ha 2024 up 205.3% volatile
215 United States Minor Outlying Islands 0.45 1000 ha 2024 up 9.8% flat
216 Libya 0.43 1000 ha 2024 down 52.2% falling
216 China, Macao SAR 0.43 1000 ha 2024 down 25.9% falling
218 Bermuda 0.3 1000 ha 2024 up 25.0% volatile
219 Antarctica 0.24 1000 ha 2024 up 60.0% volatile
219 Cabo Verde 0.24 1000 ha 2024 down 73.9% volatile
221 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 0.22 1000 ha 2024 up 266.7% volatile
222 Mauritania 0.17 1000 ha 2024 down 46.9% volatile
223 Burkina Faso 0.11 1000 ha 2024 down 54.2% volatile
224 United Arab Emirates 0.09 1000 ha 2024 down 73.5% volatile
225 Djibouti 0.06 1000 ha 2024 down 33.3% volatile
225 Pitcairn 0.06 1000 ha 2024 down 82.4% volatile
227 Bahrain 0.04 1000 ha 2024 down 76.5% volatile
227 Gibraltar 0.04 1000 ha 2024 unchanged falling
227 Maldives 0.04 1000 ha 2024 down 55.6% volatile
230 Monaco 0.02 1000 ha 2024 unchanged flat
230 Marshall Islands 0.02 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 Aruba 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 Kuwait 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile
232 Malta 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Niger 0 1000 ha 2024 down 100.0% volatile
232 Qatar 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Tuvalu 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Western Sahara 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Tokelau 0 1000 ha 2024 flat
232 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 0 1000 ha 2024 volatile

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 MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.