Forest area (% of land area) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators

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Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.

Rank	Country	Value
Forest area (% of land area) - Land use - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Suriname	94.72
2	Micronesia	90.57
3	American Samoa	89
4	Palau	88.26
5	Seychelles	86.96
6	Gabon	84.43
7	Bhutan	83.78
8	Guyana	76.73
9	Solomon Islands	74.76
10	Finland	74.02
11	Guinea-Bissau	72.98
12	Belize	72.47
13	Northern Mariana Islands	72.17
14	Laos	69.26
15	Japan	68.22
16	Sweden	67.14
17	Republic of the Congo	65.70
18	South Korea	64.50
19	North Korea	64.50
20	Papua New Guinea	64.39
21	Slovenia	63.28
22	Malaysia	62.73
23	Dominica	60.67
24	Samoa	60.42
25	Democratic Republic of the Congo	58.65
26	Panama	57.69
27	Equatorial Guinea	57.09
28	Cambodia	56.70
29	Zambia	55.91
30	Brazil	55.74
31	Fiji	54.73
32	Colombia	54.65
33	Estonia	54.27
34	Bolivia	53.72
35	Peru	53.56
36	Venezuela	53.44
37	Timor-Leste	52.16
38	Brunei Darussalam	51.99
39	Bahamas	51.45
40	Russia	49.37
41	Guam	47.96
42	Burma	47.88
43	Cayman Islands	47.69
44	Latvia	47.60
45	Gambia	47.50
46	Angola	47.21
47	Austria	46.96
48	Costa Rica	46.94
49	Indonesia	46.78
50	Montenegro	46.48
51	Puerto Rico	46.04
52	Paraguay	45.60
53	Latin America & Caribbean	44.93
54	Senegal	44.58
55	Cameroon	44.01
56	Trinidad and Tobago	43.90
57	Zimbabwe	43.72
58	Vietnam	43.26
59	Liechtenstein	43.13
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.68
61	Portugal	42.22
62	Nicaragua	41.50
63	Kosovo	41.33
64	Slovakia	40.17
65	Georgia	39.72
66	Croatia	39.65
67	New Caledonia	39.22
68	Belarus	39
69	Tanzania	38.87
70	Honduras	38.75
71	Europe & Central Asia	38.35
72	Sierra Leone	37.92
73	Ecuador	37.78
74	Euro area	37.72
75	Upper middle income	37.34
76	Spain	37.09
77	Central African Republic	36.43
78	Vanuatu	36.05
79	Guatemala	35.74
80	Macedonia	35.63
81	Malawi	35.46
82	Italy	34.65
83	Czech Republic	34.34
84	Bulgaria	34.30
85	Canada	34.10
86	Andorra	34.04
87	Lithuania	33.99
88	Luxembourg	33.51
89	United States	33.12
90	Ivory Coast	32.82
91	Mexico	32.78
92	Middle income	32.28
93	Swaziland	32
94	Germany	31.76
95	Liberia	31.50
96	High income: OECD	31.39
97	Jamaica	31.23
98	New Zealand	31.16
99	Norway	30.96
100	Low & middle income	30.81
101	Switzerland	30.75
102	Poland	30.39
103	Greece	29.58
104	Albania	29.34
105	Sri Lanka	28.99
106	High income	28.91
107	French Polynesia	28.69
108	France	28.55
109	Sao Tome and Principe	28.54
110	East Asia & Pacific	28.54
111	Dominican Republic	28.48
112	Thailand	28.19
113	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	28.11
114	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	27.95
115	Sudan	27.93
116	St. Lucia	27.87
117	Romania	27.72
118	Least developed countries: UN classification	27.15
119	Guinea	27.07
120	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.14
121	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	26
122	Cuba	25.72
123	Lower middle income	24.78
124	Low income	24.75
125	Burkina Faso	24.66
126	Nepal	24.63
127	Mozambique	24.37
128	Serbia	23.62
129	Ghana	23.23
130	Philippines	22.96
131	India	22.79
132	Hungary	22.36
133	Belgium	22.03
134	China	22.02
135	Madagascar	21.95
136	Chile	21.83
137	Rwanda	21.66
138	Antigua and Barbuda	21.36
139	Australia	21.26
140	Cape Verde	20.97
141	Botswana	20.66
142	St. Kitts and Nevis	20.38
143	Benin	20.08
144	Bermuda	20
145	Cyprus	18.94
146	Mauritius	18.03
147	Uganda	17.53
148	South Asia	16.73
149	Ukraine	16.57
150	Eritrea	15.34
151	Mayotte	14.44
152	El Salvador	13.88
153	Lebanon	13.56
154	Turkey	13.28
155	Ethiopia	12.72
156	Grenada	12.06
157	Argentina	11.96
158	Denmark	11.92
159	United Kingdom	11.85
160	Azerbaijan	11.33
161	Nigeria	11.28
162	Somalia	11.12
163	Netherlands	10.87
164	Mali	10.14
165	Ireland	10.06
166	Moldova	10.04
167	Morocco	9.81
168	Armenia	9.72
169	Chad	9.34
170	Namibia	9.12
171	Uruguay	8.83
172	Turkmenistan	8.78
173	Israel	8.03
174	Uzbekistan	7.82
175	South Africa	7.58
176	Tunisia	7.05
177	Iran	6.80
178	Bangladesh	6.66
179	Mongolia	6.49
180	Togo	6.36
181	Kenya	6.15
182	Isle of Man	6.14
183	Burundi	5.20
184	Tonga	5
185	Kyrgyzstan	4.56
186	High income: nonOECD	4.28
187	Channel Islands	4.21
188	Barbados	3.95
189	Haiti	3.75
190	United Arab Emirates	3.74
191	Singapore	3.30
192	Maldives	3
193	Tajikistan	2.93
194	Kiribati	2.72
195	Syria	2.57
196	Middle East & North Africa	2.46
197	Comoros	2.37
198	Pakistan	2.36
199	Aruba	2.22
200	Iraq	1.88
201	San Marino	1.67
202	Netherlands Antilles	1.50
203	West Bank and Gaza	1.50
204	Saudi Arabia	1.36
205	Afghanistan	1.24
206	Kazakhstan	1.23
207	Yemen	1.04
208	Algeria	0.98
209	Niger	0.98
210	Malta	0.94
211	Jordan	0.94
212	Bahrain	0.70
213	Iceland	0.49
214	Kuwait	0.33
215	Lesotho	0.28
216	Mauritania	0.24
217	Djibouti	0.24
218	Libya	0.12
219	Egypt	0.07
220	Faroe Islands	0.07
221	Oman	0.01
222	Greenland	0

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