Countries in Asia by forest area

Countries in Asia by forest area, World Bank, 2023

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Brunei	72%	South-Eastern Asia
2	Bhutan	72%	Southern Asia
3	Laos	72%	South-Eastern Asia
4	Japan	68%	Eastern Asia
5	South Korea	64%	Eastern Asia
6	Timor-Leste	62%	South-Eastern Asia
7	Malaysia	58%	South-Eastern Asia
8	North Korea	50%	Eastern Asia
9	Indonesia	48%	South-Eastern Asia
10	Vietnam	47%	South-Eastern Asia
11	Cambodia	43%	South-Eastern Asia
12	Myanmar	42%	South-Eastern Asia
13	Nepal	42%	Southern Asia
14	Georgia	41%	Western Asia
15	Thailand	39%	South-Eastern Asia
16	Sri Lanka	34%	Southern Asia
17	Turkey	30%	Western Asia
=18	India	25%	Southern Asia
=18	Philippines	25%	South-Eastern Asia
20	China	24%	Eastern Asia
21	Singapore	21%	South-Eastern Asia
22	Cyprus	19%	Western Asia
23	Bangladesh	15%	Southern Asia
24	Lebanon	14%	Western Asia
25	Azerbaijan	14%	Western Asia
26	Armenia	12%	Western Asia
27	Mongolia	9%	Eastern Asia
28	Turkmenistan	9%	Central Asia
29	Uzbekistan	9%	Central Asia
30	Kyrgyzstan	7%	Central Asia
31	Iran	7%	Southern Asia
32	Israel	7%	Western Asia
33	Pakistan	5%	Southern Asia
34	United Arab Emirates	5%	Western Asia
35	Tajikistan	3%	Central Asia
=36	Maldives	3%	Southern Asia
=36	Syria	3%	Western Asia
=38	Afghanistan	2%	Southern Asia
=38	Iraq	2%	Western Asia
40	Kazakhstan	1%	Central Asia
41	Jordan	1%	Western Asia
=42	Bahrain	1%	Western Asia
=42	Yemen	1%	Western Asia
44	Saudi Arabia	1%	Western Asia
45	Kuwait	0%	Western Asia
=46	Oman	0%	Western Asia
=46	Qatar	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 (2023). Next come Bhutan (72% forest) and Laos (72% forest).

Which country in Asia has the least forest?

Qatar, with 0% forest (2023).

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, 2023. 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.