1
🇫🇲Micronesia
92.1%
2
🇸🇷Suriname
91.5%
3
🇬🇦Gabon
91.4%
4
🇵🇼Palau
90.8%
5
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
89.8%
6
🇬🇾Guyana
87.1%
7
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
86.1%
8
🇦🇸American Samoa
79.6%
9
🇩🇲Dominica
76.4%
10
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
75.2%
11
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
74.8%
12
🇻🇺Vanuatu
74.6%
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
71.0%
18
🇧🇹Bhutan
70.4%
19
🇸🇪Sweden
68.6%
20
🇯🇵Japan
68.3%
21
🇱🇷Liberia
66.1%
22
🇻🇬British Virgin Islands
66.0%
23
🇰🇷South Korea
64.4%
24
🇰🇵North Korea
64.1%
25
🇨🇬Congo
64.0%
26
🇵🇦Panama
62.2%
27
🇸🇮Slovenia
61.8%
28
🇫🇯Fiji
61.7%
29
🇨🇩DR Congo
61.5%
30
🇲🇪Montenegro
61.5%
31
🇿🇲Zambia
60.5%
32
🇨🇷Costa Rica
59.1%
33
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
58.9%
34
🇧🇷Brazil
58.5%
35
🇸🇨Seychelles
58.5%
36
🇧🇿Belize
58.0%
37
🇲🇾Malaysia
57.7%
38
🇼🇸Samoa
57.6%
39
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
57.6%
40
🇪🇪Estonia
57.2%
41
🇱🇦Laos
56.6%
42
🇯🇲Jamaica
56.5%
43
🇱🇻Latvia
55.6%
44
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
53.8%
45
🇨🇴Colombia
53.7%
46
🇲🇭Marshall Islands
53.6%
47
🇻🇪Venezuela
53.4%
48
🇲🇵Northern Mariana Islands
53.3%
49
🇰🇾Cayman Islands
53.0%
50
🇭🇳Honduras
52.8%
Highlights
As of 2024, Micronesia ranks first with 92.1%, followed by Suriname (91.5%) and Gabon (91.4%).
The top two are virtually level: Micronesia and Suriname differ by less than 1%.
Across 209 countries and territories, values run from 92.1% (Micronesia) to 0.0% (Greenland), with a median of 33.0%.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Oceania, 3 from the Americas and 2 from Africa.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Forest area (% of land area), 2024. Unit: % of land.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Forest area (% of land area) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 13, 2026