Countries in North America by forest area

Territories and other places

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

Place	% of land	Status
US Virgin Islands	59%	Territory of United States of America
Cayman Islands	53%	Territory of United Kingdom
Puerto Rico	50%	Territory of United States of America
British Virgin Islands	24%	Territory of United Kingdom
Saint Martin	23%	Territory of France
Bermuda	14%	Territory of United Kingdom
Turks and Caicos Islands	11%	Territory of United Kingdom
Sint Maarten	9%	Territory of Netherlands
Aruba	3%	Territory of Netherlands
Curaçao	0%	Territory of Netherlands
Greenland	0%	Territory of Denmark

Questions

Which country in North America has the most forest?

Dominica has the most forest in North America: 76% forest (2024). Next come Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (73% forest) and Panama (62% forest).

Which country in North America has the least forest?

Haiti, with 14% forest (2024).

What is the typical forest area of a country in North America?

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 42% 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.