This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. In 2022, it lost 22.8 million ha of tree cover.^{[1][need quotation to verify]}

In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06 billion ha, which was 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person^[2] – although forests are not distributed equally among the world's people or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world's forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%).^[2]

Many of the world's forests are being damaged and degraded or are disappearing altogether. Their capacity to provide tangible goods, such as fiber, food, and medicines, as well as essential ecological services, including habitat for biodiversity, carbon storage, and moderation of freshwater flows, is under greater threat than ever before.^{[3][obsolete source]}According to World Resource Institute in Washington, between 2000 and 2020 the world lost 101 million hectares (Mha) of tree cover, mostly tropical and subtropical forests (92%).^[3] The FAO is compiling a new global assessment due to be published in 2025.^[4]

Planet, continents and regions

All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization^[5]

Region	1990	2000	2010	2020
World	4,236,433	4,158,050	4,106,317	4,058,931
Asia (including Russia)	1,394,343	1,396,679	1,426,096	1,437,999
South America	973,666	922,645	870,154	844,186
North America and Central America	755,279	752,349	754,190	752,710
Africa	742,801	710,049	676,015	636,639
Europe (excluding Russia)	185,369	192,999	198,846	202,149
Oceania	184,974	183,328	181,015	185,248

Countries and territories

All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations^[6]

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Country	1990	2000	2010	2020
Afghanistan	1,208	1,208	1,208	1,208
Albania	789	769	782	789
Algeria	1,667	1,579	1,918	1,949
American Samoa	18	18	17	17
Andorra	16	16	16	16
Angola	79,263	77,709	72,158	66,607
Antigua and Barbuda	10	9	9	8
Argentina	35,204	33,378	30,214	28,573
Armenia	335	333	331	328
Australia	133,882	131,814	129,546	134,005
Austria	3,776	3,838	3,863	3,899
Azerbaijan	945	987	1,032	1,132
Bahamas	510	510	510	510
Bangladesh	1,920	1,920	1,888	1,883
Barbados	6	6	6	6
Belarus	7,780	8,273	8,630	8,768
Belgium	677	667	690	689
Belize	1,600	1,459	1,391	1,277
Benin	4,835	4,135	3,635	3,135
Bermuda	1	1	1	1
Bhutan	2,507	2,606	2,705	2,725
Bolivia	57,805	55,101	53,086	50,834
Bosnia	2,210	2,112	2,103	2,188
Botswana	18,804	17,621	16,438	15,255
Brazil	588,898	551,089	511,581	496,620
Brunei	413	397	380	380
Bulgaria	3,327	3,375	3,737	3,893
Burkina Faso	7,717	7,217	6,717	6,216
Burundi	276	194	194	280
Cambodia	11,005	10,781	10,589	8,068
Cameroon	22,500	21,597	20,900	20,340
Canada	348,273	347,802	347,322	346,928
Cape Verde	15	40	43	46
Cayman Islands	13	13	13	13
Central African Republic	23,203	22,903	22,603	22,303
Chad	6,730	6,353	5,530	4,313
Chile	15,246	15,817	16,725	18,211
China	157,141	177,001	200,610	219,978
Colombia	64,958	62,736	60,808	59,142
Comoros	46	42	37	33
Republic of the Congo	22,315	22,195	22,075	21,946
Costa Rica	2,907	2,857	2,871	3,035
Croatia	1,850	1,885	1,920	1,939
Cuba	2,058	2,435	2,932	3,242
Cyprus	161	172	173	173
Czech Republic	2,629	2,637	2,657	2,677
Democratic Republic of the Congo	150,629	143,899	137,169	126,155
Denmark	531	572	586	628
Djibouti	6	6	6	6
Dominica	50	48	48	48
Dominican Republic	1,595	1,972	2,073	2,144
East Timor	963	949	935	921
Ecuador	14,632	13,731	13,028	12,498
Egypt	44	59	66	45
El Salvador	719	674	629	584
Equatorial Guinea	2,699	2,616	2,532	2,448
Eritrea	1,150	1,118	1,087	1,055
Estonia	2,206	2,239	2,336	2,438
Ethiopia	19,259	18,529	17,799	17,069
Fiji	940	1,006	1,073	1,140
Finland	21,875	22,446	22,242	22,409
France	14,436	15,288	16,419	17,253
Gabon	23,762	23,700	23,649	23,531
Gambia	415	357	300	243
Georgia	2,752	2,761	2,822	2,822
Germany (see: Forest in Germany)	11,300	11,354	11,409	11,419
Ghana	9,924	8,849	7,943	7,986
Greece	3,299	3,600	3,902	3,902
Grenada	18	18	18	18
Guatemala	4,781	4,209	3,723	3,528
Guinea	7,276	6,929	6,569	6,189
Guinea-Bissau	2,233	2,149	2,064	1,980
Guyana	18,602	18,564	18,520	18,415
Haiti	383	381	378	347
Honduras	6,988	6,778	6,575	6,359
Hungary	1,814	1,921	2,046	2,053
Iceland	17	30	45	51
India	63,938	67,591	69,496	72,160
Indonesia	118,545	101,280	99,659	92,133
Iran	9,076	9,326	10,692	10,752
Iraq	804	818	825	825
Ireland	462	630	720	782
Israel	132	153	154	140
Italy	7,590	8,369	9,028	9,566
Ivory Coast	7,851	5,094	3,966	2,837
Jamaica	521	521	558	597
Japan	24,950	24,876	24,966	24,935
Jordan	98	98	98	98
Kazakhstan	3,162	3,157	3,082	3,455
Kenya	3,859	3,961	3,616	3,611
Kiribati	1	1	1	1
Kuwait	3	5	6	6
Kyrgyzstan	1,136	1,181	1,230	1,315
Laos	17,843	17,425	16,941	16,596
Latvia	3,173	3,241	3,372	3,411
Lebanon	140	138	137	143
Lesotho	35	35	35	35
Liberia	8,525	8,223	7,920	7,617
Libya	217	217	217	217