Countries by forest area

Countries by forest area, World Bank, 2023

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Suriname	94%	South America
2	Micronesia	92%	Micronesia
3	Gabon	91%	Middle Africa
4	Palau	91%	Micronesia
5	Solomon Islands	90%	Melanesia
6	Guyana	87%	South America
7	Equatorial Guinea	86%	Middle Africa
8	Papua New Guinea	79%	Melanesia
9	Liberia	78%	Western Africa
10	Finland	74%	Northern Europe
11	Seychelles	73%	Eastern Africa
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73%	Caribbean
13	Brunei	72%	South-Eastern Asia
14	Bhutan	72%	Southern Asia
15	Laos	72%	South-Eastern Asia
16	Guinea-Bissau	70%	Western Africa
17	Sweden	69%	Northern Europe
18	Japan	68%	Eastern Asia
=19	Congo	64%	Middle Africa
=19	South Korea	64%	Eastern Asia
21	Dominica	64%	Caribbean
22	Fiji	64%	Melanesia
23	Timor-Leste	62%	South-Eastern Asia
24	Montenegro	62%	Southern Europe
25	Slovenia	61%	Southern Europe
26	Costa Rica	60%	Central America
27	Zambia	60%	Eastern Africa
28	Brazil	59%	South America
29	Malaysia	58%	South-Eastern Asia
30	Samoa	58%	Polynesia
31	Estonia	57%	Northern Europe
=32	Honduras	56%	Central America
=32	Panama	56%	Central America
34	Jamaica	56%	Caribbean
35	Peru	56%	South America
36	Latvia	55%	Northern Europe
37	Belize	55%	Central America
38	DR Congo	54%	Middle Africa
39	Colombia	53%	South America
=40	Marshall Islands	52%	Micronesia
=40	Venezuela	52%	South America
=42	Angola	52%	Middle Africa
=42	Grenada	52%	Caribbean
=42	São Tomé and Principe	52%	Middle Africa
45	Bahamas	51%	Caribbean
46	Tanzania	50%	Eastern Africa
47	Russia	50%	Eastern Europe
48	North Korea	50%	Eastern Asia
49	Ecuador	50%	South America
50	Indonesia	48%	South-Eastern Asia
51	Vietnam	47%	South-Eastern Asia
52	Austria	47%	Western Europe
53	Bolivia	46%	South America
54	Mozambique	46%	Eastern Africa
55	Dominican Republic	45%	Caribbean
56	Zimbabwe	45%	Eastern Africa
57	Trinidad and Tobago	44%	Caribbean
58	Belarus	43%	Eastern Europe
59	Cambodia	43%	South-Eastern Asia
=60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43%	Southern Europe
=60	Cameroon	43%	Middle Africa
62	Myanmar	42%	South-Eastern Asia
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42%	Caribbean
64	Liechtenstein	42%	Western Europe
65	Nepal	42%	Southern Asia
66	Senegal	41%	Western Africa
67	Georgia	41%	Western Asia
68	Slovakia	40%	Eastern Europe
69	North Macedonia	40%	Southern Europe
70	Canada	40%	Northern America
71	Thailand	39%	South-Eastern Asia
72	Paraguay	39%	South America
73	New Zealand	38%	Australia and New Zealand
74	Spain	37%	Southern Europe
75	Vanuatu	36%	Melanesia
=76	Bulgaria	36%	Eastern Europe
=76	Portugal	36%	Southern Europe
78	Central African Republic	36%	Middle Africa
=79	Ghana	35%	Western Africa
=79	Lithuania	35%	Northern Europe
=81	Croatia	35%	Southern Europe
=81	Czechia	35%	Eastern Europe
83	Luxembourg	35%	Western Europe
84	Sierra Leone	34%	Western Africa
=85	Andorra	34%	Southern Europe
=85	Saint Lucia	34%	Caribbean
=85	Sri Lanka	34%	Southern Asia
88	United States	34%	Northern America
89	Mexico	34%	Central America
90	Norway	34%	Northern Europe
91	Italy	33%	Southern Europe
92	Germany	33%	Western Europe
93	Guatemala	33%	Central America
94	France	33%	Western Europe
=95	Serbia	32%	Southern Europe
=95	Switzerland	32%	Western Europe
97	Cuba	31%	Caribbean
98	Poland	31%	Eastern Europe
99	Greece	30%	Southern Europe
100	Romania	30%	Eastern Europe
101	Turkey	30%	Western Asia
102	Eswatini	29%	Southern Africa
103	Albania	29%	Southern Europe
104	El Salvador	28%	Central America
105	Benin	27%	Western Africa
106	Botswana	26%	Southern Africa
107	Nicaragua	26%	Central America
108	Chile	25%	South America
109	Guinea	25%	Western Africa
=110	India	25%	Southern Asia
=110	Philippines	25%	South-Eastern Asia
112	China	24%	Eastern Asia
113	Nigeria	23%	Western Africa
114	Belgium	23%	Western Europe
=115	Hungary	22%	Eastern Europe
=115	Malawi	22%	Eastern Africa
117	Gambia	22%	Western Africa
118	Burkina Faso	22%	Western Africa
119	Togo	22%	Western Africa
120	Madagascar	21%	Eastern Africa
121	Singapore	21%	South-Eastern Asia
122	Mauritius	20%	Eastern Africa
123	Cyprus	19%	Western Asia
124	Antigua and Barbuda	18%	Caribbean
125	Australia	17%	Australia and New Zealand
126	Comoros	17%	Eastern Africa
127	Ukraine	17%	Eastern Europe
128	San Marino	17%	Southern Europe
129	Denmark	16%	Northern Europe
130	Ethiopia	15%	Eastern Africa
131	Barbados	15%	Caribbean
132	Bangladesh	15%	Southern Asia
133	Lebanon	14%	Western Asia
134	Azerbaijan	14%	Western Asia
135	South Africa	14%	Southern Africa
136	United Kingdom	13%	Northern Europe
137	Morocco	13%	Northern Africa
138	Tonga	12%	Polynesia
139	Haiti	12%	Caribbean
140	Uruguay	12%	South America
141	Moldova	12%	Eastern Europe
=142	Armenia	12%	Western Asia
=142	Cabo Verde	12%	Western Africa
144	Ireland	12%	Northern Europe
=145	Rwanda	11%	Eastern Africa
=145	South Sudan	11%	Eastern Africa
147	Netherlands	11%	Western Europe
148	Uganda	11%	Eastern Africa
=149	Burundi	11%	Eastern Africa
=149	Mali	11%	Western Africa
151	Argentina	10%	South America
152	Sudan	10%	Northern Africa
153	Somalia	9%	Eastern Africa
154	Mongolia	9%	Eastern Asia
155	Turkmenistan	9%	Central Asia
156	Eritrea	9%	Eastern Africa
157	Uzbekistan	9%	Central Asia
158	Côte d'Ivoire	8%	Western Africa
159	Namibia	8%	Southern Africa
160	Kyrgyzstan	7%	Central Asia
161	Iran	7%	Southern Asia
162	Israel	7%	Western Asia
163	Kenya	6%	Eastern Africa
164	Pakistan	5%	Southern Asia
165	Tunisia	5%	Northern Africa
166	United Arab Emirates	5%	Western Asia
167	Chad	3%	Middle Africa
168	Tajikistan	3%	Central Asia
=169	Maldives	3%	Southern Asia
=169	Syria	3%	Western Asia
=171	Afghanistan	2%	Southern Asia
=171	Iraq	2%	Western Asia
173	Kiribati	2%	Micronesia
174	Malta	1%	Southern Europe
175	Kazakhstan	1%	Central Asia
=176	Jordan	1%	Western Asia
=176	Lesotho	1%	Southern Africa
=178	Bahrain	1%	Western Asia
=178	Yemen	1%	Western Asia
=180	Algeria	1%	Northern Africa
=180	Niger	1%	Western Africa
=182	Iceland	1%	Northern Europe
=182	Saudi Arabia	1%	Western Asia
184	Kuwait	0%	Western Asia
=185	Djibouti	0%	Eastern Africa
=185	Mauritania	0%	Western Africa
187	Libya	0%	Northern Africa
=188	Egypt	0%	Northern Africa
=188	Monaco	0%	Western Europe
=188	Nauru	0%	Micronesia
=188	Oman	0%	Western Asia
=188	Qatar	0%	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for 2 countries: Taiwan, Vatican City.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	% of land	Status
American Samoa	85%	Territory of United States of America
US Virgin Islands	58%	Territory of United States of America
Puerto Rico	56%	Territory of United States of America
Northern Mariana Islands	53%	Territory of United States of America
Cayman Islands	53%	Territory of United Kingdom
Guam	52%	Territory of United States of America
New Caledonia	46%	Territory of France
French Polynesia	43%	Territory of France
Saint Martin	25%	Territory of France
British Virgin Islands	24%	Territory of United Kingdom
Bermuda	19%	Territory of United Kingdom
Turks and Caicos Islands	11%	Territory of United Kingdom
Sint Maarten	11%	Territory of Netherlands
Isle of Man	6%	Territory of United Kingdom
Aruba	2%	Territory of Netherlands
Palestine	2%	Status disputed
Curaçao	0%	Territory of Netherlands
Faroe Islands	0%	Territory of Denmark
Greenland	0%	Territory of Denmark

Questions

Which country has the most forest?

Suriname has the most forest: 94% forest (2023). Next come Micronesia (92% forest) and Gabon (91% forest).

Which country has the least forest?

Qatar, with 0% forest (2023).

What is the typical forest area of a country?

The median of the 192 countries is 32% forest: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of the land under forest: natural or planted stands of trees at least five metres tall, whether productive or not. Source: World Bank, 2023. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures older than five years are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.