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Top 10 Most Forested Countries

The countries where forest covers the largest share of the land.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by forest area (% of land area)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. Micronesia, Fed. Sts.

    Data year 2020

    92.1%

    No change

  2. Suriname

    Data year 2024

    91.5%

    No change

  3. Gabon

    Data year 2024

    91.4%

    No change
  1. 4PalauData year 202490.8%No change
  2. 5Solomon IslandsData year 202389.8%No change
  3. 6GuyanaData year 202487.1%No change
  4. 7Equatorial GuineaData year 202486.1%No change
  5. 8American SamoaData year 202479.6%No change
  6. 9DominicaData year 202476.4%No change
  7. 10Papua New GuineaData year 202475.2%No change
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  1. 11Guinea-BissauData year 202474.8%No change
  2. 12VanuatuData year 202474.6%No change
  3. 13FinlandData year 202274.2%No change
  4. 14St. Vincent and the GrenadinesData year 202373.4%No change
  5. 15Central African RepublicData year 202472.5%No change
  6. 16Brunei DarussalamData year 202472.1%No change
  7. 17Timor-LesteData year 202471.0%No change
  8. 18BhutanData year 202370.4%No change
  9. 19SwedenData year 202268.6%No change
  10. 20JapanData year 202468.3%No change
  11. 21LiberiaData year 202466.1%No change
  12. 22British Virgin IslandsData year 202466.0%No change
  13. 23Korea, Rep.Data year 202264.4%No change
  14. 24Korea, Dem. People's Rep.Data year 202464.1%No change
  15. 25Congo, Rep.Data year 202464.0%No change
  16. 26PanamaData year 202462.2%No change
  17. 27SloveniaData year 202261.8%No change
  18. 28FijiData year 202461.7%No change
  19. 29Congo, Dem. Rep.Data year 202461.5%No change
  20. 30MontenegroData year 202461.5%No change
  21. 31ZambiaData year 202460.5%No change
  22. 32Costa RicaData year 202359.1%No change
  23. 33Virgin Islands (U.S.)Data year 202458.9%No change
  24. 34BrazilData year 202458.5%No change
  25. 35SeychellesData year 202458.5%No change
  26. 36BelizeData year 202458.0%No change
  27. 37MalaysiaData year 202457.7%No change
  28. 38SamoaData year 202457.6%No change
  29. 39Sao Tome and PrincipeData year 202457.6%No change
  30. 40EstoniaData year 202457.2%No change
  31. 41Lao PDRData year 202456.6%No change
  32. 42JamaicaData year 202456.5%No change
  33. 43LatviaData year 202455.6%No change
  34. 44St. LuciaData year 202453.8%No change
  35. 45ColombiaData year 202053.7%No change
  36. 46Marshall IslandsData year 202253.6%No change
  37. 47Venezuela, RBData year 202453.4%No change
  38. 48Northern Mariana IslandsData year 202453.3%No change
  39. 49Cayman IslandsData year 202453.0%No change
  40. 50HondurasData year 202452.8%No change

How this list is ranked

Forest area (% of land area) (World Bank indicator AG.LND.FRST.ZS), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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