Forest area

Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is 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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
213
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20231.85percent
Albania202328.79percent
Algeria20230.83percent
American Samoa202385.20percent
Andorra202334.04percent
Angola202352.09percent
Antigua and Barbuda202318.01percent
Argentina202310.32percent
Armenia202311.62percent
Aruba20232.33percent

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