Which country in North America has the most forest?

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has the most forest in North America: 73% forest (2023). Next come Dominica (64% forest) and Costa Rica (60% forest).

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, 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.

Countries in North America by forest area

The share of the land under forest: natural or planted stands of trees at least five metres tall, whether productive or not. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2023

See it on the map

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Highest

73%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Median country

42%

half above, half below

Lowest

12%

Haiti

Countries in North America by forest area, World Bank, 2023
#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73%	Caribbean
2	Dominica	64%	Caribbean
3	Costa Rica	60%	Central America
=4	Honduras	56%	Central America
=4	Panama	56%	Central America
6	Jamaica	56%	Caribbean
7	Belize	55%	Central America
8	Grenada	52%	Caribbean
9	Bahamas	51%	Caribbean
10	Dominican Republic	45%	Caribbean
11	Trinidad and Tobago	44%	Caribbean
12	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42%	Caribbean
13	Canada	40%	Northern America
14	Saint Lucia	34%	Caribbean
15	United States	34%	Northern America
16	Mexico	34%	Central America
17	Guatemala	33%	Central America
18	Cuba	31%	Caribbean
19	El Salvador	28%	Central America
20	Nicaragua	26%	Central America
21	Antigua and Barbuda	18%	Caribbean
22	Barbados	15%	Caribbean
23	Haiti	12%	Caribbean

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	58%	Territory of United States of America
Puerto Rico	56%	Territory of United States of America
Cayman Islands	53%	Territory of United Kingdom
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
Aruba	2%	Territory of Netherlands
Curaçao	0%	Territory of Netherlands
Greenland	0%	Territory of Denmark

Questions

Which country in North America has the most forest?: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has the most forest in North America: 73% forest (2023). Next come Dominica (64% forest) and Costa Rica (60% forest).
Which country in North America has the least forest?: Haiti, with 12% forest (2023).
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, 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 older than five years are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.