Forest Cover — World Ranking

The share of a country's land covered by natural forest and growth — the lungs of the planet.

The top 50 — Forest Cover

Sorted with the highest value first (a higher value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Micronesia	92%
2	Suriname	91.7%
3	Gabon	91.5%
4	Palau	90.8%
5	Solomon Islands	89.9%
6	Guyana	87.1%
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.4%
8	American Samoa	79.6%
9	Dominica	76.5%
10	Papua New Guinea	75.2%
11	Guinea-Bissau	75%
12	Vanuatu	74.8%
13	Finland	74.2%
14	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.4%
15	Central African Republic	72.5%
16	Brunei	72.1%
17	Timor-Leste	71%
18	Bhutan	70.6%
19	Sweden	68.6%
20	Japan	68.3%
21	Liberia	66.5%
22	British Virgin Islands	66%
23	South Korea	64.4%
24	North Korea	64%
25	Republic of the Congo	63.9%
26	Panama	62.3%
27	Slovenia	61.8%
28	Fiji	61.7%
29	DR Congo	61.6%
30	Montenegro	61.5%
31	Zambia	60.6%
32	Seychelles	59%
33	Costa Rica	59%
34	Brazil	58.9%
35	United States Virgin Islands	58.5%
36	Belize	58.3%
37	Malaysia	57.8%
38	Samoa	57.8%
39	São Tomé and Príncipe	57.5%
40	Estonia	57.2%
41	Laos	56.8%
42	Jamaica	56.2%
43	Latvia	55.5%
44	Colombia	53.8%
45	Saint Lucia	53.7%
46	Marshall Islands	53.6%
47	Venezuela	53.5%
48	Northern Mariana Islands	53.3%
49	Honduras	53.3%
50	Cayman Islands	53%

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator AG.LND.FRST.ZS, year 2023) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.