Countries in Asia by forest area

Countries in Asia by forest area, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Brunei	72%	South-Eastern Asia
2	Timor-Leste	71%	South-Eastern Asia
3	Bhutan	70%	Southern Asia
4	Japan	68%	Eastern Asia
5	South Korea	64%	Eastern Asia
6	North Korea	64%	Eastern Asia
7	Malaysia	58%	South-Eastern Asia
8	Laos	57%	South-Eastern Asia
9	Indonesia	51%	South-Eastern Asia
10	Vietnam	47%	South-Eastern Asia
11	Georgia	45%	Western Asia
12	Nepal	44%	Southern Asia
13	Myanmar	42%	South-Eastern Asia
14	Thailand	39%	South-Eastern Asia
15	Cambodia	38%	South-Eastern Asia
16	Sri Lanka	34%	Southern Asia
17	Turkey	30%	Western Asia
18	Philippines	25%	South-Eastern Asia
19	India	24%	Southern Asia
20	China	24%	Eastern Asia
21	Singapore	22%	South-Eastern Asia
22	Cyprus	19%	Western Asia
23	Azerbaijan	15%	Western Asia
24	Bangladesh	14%	Southern Asia
25	Lebanon	14%	Western Asia
26	Maldives	13%	Southern Asia
27	Armenia	12%	Western Asia
28	Mongolia	9%	Eastern Asia
29	Uzbekistan	9%	Central Asia
30	Israel	7%	Western Asia
31	Iran	7%	Southern Asia
32	Kyrgyzstan	7%	Central Asia
33	Turkmenistan	5%	Central Asia
34	Bahrain	5%	Western Asia
35	United Arab Emirates	5%	Western Asia
36	Pakistan	4%	Southern Asia
37	Tajikistan	3%	Central Asia
38	Syria	3%	Western Asia
39	Afghanistan	2%	Southern Asia
40	Iraq	2%	Western Asia
=41	Kazakhstan	1%	Central Asia
=41	Saudi Arabia	1%	Western Asia
43	Yemen	1%	Western Asia
44	Jordan	1%	Western Asia
45	Kuwait	0%	Western Asia
46	Qatar	0%	Western Asia
47	Oman	0%	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

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

Place	% of land	Status
Palestine	2%	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the most forest?

Brunei has the most forest in Asia: 72% forest (2024). Next come Timor-Leste (71% forest) and Bhutan (70% forest).

Which country in Asia has the least forest?

Oman, with 0% forest (2024).

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

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 14% 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, 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.