Forest by area · 2023

What country has the most % of land area covered by forest?

Suriname ranks first in the world for % of land area covered by forest, at 94.4.

Ranking by % of land area covered by forest
#	Country	% of land area covered by forest
1	Suriname	94.4
2	Micronesia	92.2
3	Gabon	91.2
4	Palau	90.5
5	Solomon Islands	90.1
6	Guyana	87.1
7	Equatorial Guinea	86.4
8	Papua New Guinea	79.0
9	Liberia	78.1
10	Finland	73.7
11	Seychelles	73.3
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.2
13	Brunei	72.1
14	Bhutan	71.6
15	Laos	71.5
16	Guinea-Bissau	69.5
17	Sweden	68.7
18	Japan	68.4
19	Republic of the Congo	64.1
20	South Korea	64.1
21	Dominica	63.8
22	Fiji	63.5
23	Timor-Leste	61.7
24	Montenegro	61.5
25	Slovenia	61.2
26	Costa Rica	60.4
27	Zambia	59.5
28	Brazil	59.0
29	Malaysia	57.7
30	Samoa	57.6
31	Estonia	57.1
32	Panama	56.3
33	Honduras	56.3
34	Jamaica	56.2
35	Peru	56.1
36	Latvia	55.0
37	Belize	54.5
38	DR Congo	54.2
39	Colombia	52.8
40	Venezuela	52.2
41	Marshall Islands	52.2
42	Sao Tome and Principe	52.1
43	Angola	52.1
44	Grenada	52.1
45	Bahamas	50.9
46	Tanzania	50.1
47	Russia	49.8
48	North Korea	49.6
49	Ecuador	49.5
50	Indonesia	47.7
51	Vietnam	47.4
52	Austria	47.2
53	Bolivia	46.3
54	Mozambique	45.8
55	Dominican Republic	45.0
56	Zimbabwe	44.7
57	Trinidad and Tobago	44.2
58	Belarus	43.4
59	Cambodia	43.1
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.7
61	Cameroon	42.7
62	Myanmar	42.4
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.3
64	Liechtenstein	41.9
65	Nepal	41.6
66	Senegal	41.3
67	Georgia	40.6
68	Slovakia	40.1
69	North Macedonia	39.7
70	Canada	39.5
71	Thailand	38.7
72	Paraguay	38.5
73	New Zealand	37.8
74	Spain	37.2
75	Vanuatu	36.3
76	Bulgaria	36.2
77	Portugal	36.2
78	Central African Republic	35.7
79	Lithuania	35.2
80	Ghana	35.2
81	Croatia	34.8
82	Czechia	34.8
83	Luxembourg	34.5
84	Sierra Leone	34.3
85	Saint Lucia	34.0
86	Andorra	34.0
87	Sri Lanka	34.0
88	United States	33.9
89	Mexico	33.6
90	Norway	33.5
91	Tuvalu	33.3
92	Italy	32.9
93	Germany	32.7
94	Guatemala	32.6
95	France	32.5
96	Serbia	32.4
97	Switzerland	32.4
98	Cuba	31.2
99	Poland	31.1
100	Greece	30.3
101	Romania	30.1
102	Türkiye	29.5
103	Eswatini	29.1
104	Albania	28.8
105	El Salvador	27.5
106	Benin	26.5
107	Botswana	26.3
108	Nicaragua	25.8
109	Chile	25.0
110	Guinea	24.7
111	India	24.5
112	Philippines	24.5
113	China	24.0
114	Nigeria	23.2
115	Belgium	22.6
116	Hungary	22.4
117	Malawi	22.4
118	Gambia	22.3
119	Burkina Faso	22.2
120	Togo	22.1
121	Madagascar	21.3
122	Singapore	20.9
123	Mauritius	19.5
124	Cyprus	18.7
125	Antigua and Barbuda	18.0
126	Australia	17.4
127	Comoros	17.0
128	Ukraine	16.8
129	San Marino	16.7
130	Denmark	15.8
131	Ethiopia	14.9
132	Barbados	14.7
133	Bangladesh	14.5
134	Lebanon	14.2
135	Azerbaijan	14.1
136	South Africa	14.0
137	United Kingdom	13.3
138	Morocco	12.9
139	Tonga	12.4
140	Haiti	12.3
141	Uruguay	12.0
142	Moldova	11.7
143	Armenia	11.6
144	Cabo Verde	11.6
145	Ireland	11.5
146	South Sudan	11.3
147	Rwanda	11.3
148	The Netherlands	11.1
149	Uganda	11.0
150	Mali	10.9
151	Burundi	10.9
152	Argentina	10.3
153	Sudan	9.6
154	Somalia	9.2
155	Mongolia	9.1
156	Turkmenistan	8.8
157	Eritrea	8.6
158	Uzbekistan	8.5
159	Côte d'Ivoire	7.9
160	Namibia	7.8
161	Kyrgyzstan	7.1
162	Iran	6.6
163	Israel	6.5
164	Kenya	6.2
165	Pakistan	4.7
166	Tunisia	4.6
167	United Arab Emirates	4.5
168	Chad	3.2
169	Tajikistan	3.1
170	Syria	2.8
171	Maldives	2.8
172	Iraq	1.9
173	Afghanistan	1.9
174	Palestine	1.7
175	Kiribati	1.5
176	Malta	1.4
177	Kazakhstan	1.3
178	Lesotho	1.1
179	Jordan	1.1
180	Yemen	1.0
181	Bahrain	1.0
182	Algeria	0.8
183	Niger	0.8
184	Iceland	0.5
185	Saudi Arabia	0.5
186	Kuwait	0.4
187	Mauritania	0.3
188	Djibouti	0.3
189	Libya	0.1
190	Egypt	0.0
191	Oman	0.0
192	Monaco	0.0
192	Nauru	0.0
192	Qatar	0.0