Countries in Africa by forest area

Questions

Which country in Africa has the most forest?

Gabon has the most forest in Africa: 91% forest (2024). Next come Equatorial Guinea (86% forest) and Guinea-Bissau (75% forest).

Which country in Africa has the least forest?

Egypt, with 0% forest (2024).

What is the typical forest area of a country in Africa?

The median of the 54 countries in Africa is 20% 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, mostly 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.