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Algeria - Forest Area 2016

Name: Algeria Forest Area 2016
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

0.82% +0.00% from 2015 Global rank: 197th

Algeria's forest area was 0.82% in 2016, increased +0.00% from 0.82% in 2015. This was the 197th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Forest Area by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	94.95%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	93.74%	0.0%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.86%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.51%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.24%	0.0%
6th	Palau	89.30%	0.2%
7th	Equatorial Guinea	88.48%	-0.3%
8th	American Samoa	86.25%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	80.34%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.47%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.74%	0.0%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	72.50%	-0.2%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
16th	Guinea-Bissau	71.61%	-0.4%
17th	Bhutan	71.23%	0.0%
18th	Sweden	68.69%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.42%	0.0%
20th	Korea	64.88%	-0.2%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.43%	-0.1%
22nd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
23rd	Timor-Leste	62.32%	-0.2%
24th	Slovenia	61.86%	-0.2%
25th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
26th	Zambia	61.30%	-0.4%
27th	Fiji	60.94%	0.6%
28th	Brazil	60.07%	-0.4%
29th	Malaysia	58.79%	-0.8%
30th	Costa Rica	58.16%	0.6%
31st	Belize	57.94%	-0.8%
32nd	Samoa	57.81%	-0.3%
33rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	57.59%	-0.8%
34th	Honduras	57.58%	-0.3%
35th	Panama	57.47%	-0.3%
36th	Peru	57.04%	-0.3%
37th	São Tomé and Principe	56.65%	-1.1%
38th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.74%	0.1%
39th	Estonia	55.70%	0.0%
40th	Angola	55.21%	-0.8%
41st	Virgin Islands (US)	55.17%	0.8%
42nd	Latvia	54.56%	0.1%
43rd	Colombia	54.04%	-0.3%
44th	Tanzania	53.76%	-1.0%
45th	Jamaica	53.68%	0.7%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
47th	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	-17.4%
48th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
49th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
50th	Guam	51.85%	12.0%
51st	Ecuador	51.36%	-0.5%
52nd	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	50.78%	-0.3%
54th	Indonesia	50.74%	0.3%
55th	Russian Federation	49.77%	0.0%
56th	Cambodia	49.24%	-1.8%
57th	Mozambique	47.85%	-0.8%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	47.77%	-0.5%
59th	Austria	47.08%	0.1%
60th	Viet Nam	45.88%	2.2%
61st	New Caledonia	45.87%	0.0%
62nd	Zimbabwe	45.57%	-0.3%
63rd	Myanmar	45.50%	-0.9%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	44.81%	-0.2%
65th	Dominican Republic	43.71%	0.4%
66th	Paraguay	43.63%	-0.9%
67th	Cameroon	43.50%	-0.3%
68th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
69th	Belarus	42.91%	0.9%
70th	Senegal	42.74%	-0.5%
71st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.51%	0.7%
72nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
73rd	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.0%
74th	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	40.00%	0.1%
77th	North Macedonia	39.72%	0.7%
78th	European Union	39.64%	0.1%
79th	Thailand	39.18%	-0.2%
80th	Canada	38.71%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
82nd	Spain	37.14%	0.0%
83rd	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
84th	Sierra Leone	36.21%	-0.7%
85th	Portugal	36.15%	0.0%
86th	Central African Republic	35.99%	-0.1%
87th	Bulgaria	35.38%	0.2%
88th	Lithuania	34.96%	0.1%
89th	Ghana	34.82%	0.5%
90th	Czechia	34.58%	0.1%
91st	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
92nd	Croatia	34.38%	0.1%
93rd	Sri Lanka	34.34%	-0.1%
94th	Mexico	34.06%	-0.2%
95th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
96th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
97th	United States	33.90%	0.0%
98th	Guatemala	33.35%	-0.3%
99th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
100th	Norway	33.27%	0.1%
101st	Germany	32.69%	-0.1%
102nd	Switzerland	31.77%	0.3%
103rd	Nicaragua	31.64%	-2.6%
104th	Italy	31.62%	0.6%
105th	France	31.39%	0.5%
106th	Cuba	31.15%	1.8%
107th	Serbia	31.10%	0.0%
108th	Poland	30.81%	0.2%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	Romania	30.12%	0.4%
111th	Benin	29.58%	-1.5%
112th	El Salvador	29.05%	-0.7%
113th	Albania	28.80%	0.0%
114th	Eswatini	28.65%	0.2%
115th	Türkiye	28.10%	0.0%
116th	Botswana	27.75%	-0.7%
117th	Gambia, The	26.25%	-2.1%
118th	Guinea	25.84%	-0.6%
119th	Malawi	25.56%	-1.7%
120th	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
121st	Nigeria	24.46%	-0.7%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	0.0%
123rd	India	23.91%	0.4%
124th	Chile	23.87%	0.6%
125th	Philippines	23.64%	0.5%
126th	Burkina Faso	23.45%	-0.8%
127th	Singapore	22.97%	-1.1%
128th	Belgium	22.72%	0.0%
129th	China	22.63%	1.0%
130th	Hungary	22.56%	-0.1%
131st	Togo	22.45%	-0.2%
132nd	Madagascar	21.46%	-0.1%
133rd	Mauritius	19.17%	0.0%
134th	Antigua and Barbuda	19.05%	-0.8%
135th	Cyprus	18.68%	-0.1%
136th	Comoros	18.63%	-1.3%
137th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
138th	Australia	17.43%	0.6%
139th	Ukraine	16.68%	0.1%
140th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	15.62%	0.0%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.47%	0.0%
144th	South Africa	14.18%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.78%	0.4%
146th	Azerbaijan	13.15%	0.9%
147th	United Kingdom	13.06%	0.1%
148th	Haiti	13.05%	-0.9%
149th	Morocco	12.77%	0.3%
150th	Uganda	12.48%	-1.6%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Moldova	11.75%	0.0%
153rd	Armenia	11.57%	-0.1%
154th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
155th	Uruguay	11.12%	1.4%
156th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
157th	Ireland	11.07%	1.0%
158th	Cabo Verde	11.05%	0.7%
159th	Rwanda	11.03%	0.7%
160th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
161st	Burundi	10.89%	0.0%
162nd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
163rd	Netherlands	10.86%	0.3%
164th	Argentina	10.60%	-0.3%
165th	Côte d'Ivoire	10.34%	-3.3%
166th	Sudan	10.20%	-0.8%
167th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.02%	-1.2%
168th	Mongolia	9.10%	0.0%
169th	Eritrea	8.82%	-0.3%
170th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
171st	Namibia	8.41%	-1.0%
172nd	Uzbekistan	8.14%	1.0%
173rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.57%	0.1%
174th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.55%	0.4%
175th	Israel	6.47%	-15.2%
176th	Kenya	6.20%	0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	5.02%	-1.6%
180th	Tunisia	4.48%	0.2%
181st	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
182nd	Chad	3.79%	-2.5%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.04%	0.0%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.84%	0.0%
185th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
186th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
187th	Iraq	1.90%	0.0%
188th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
189th	West Bank and Gaza	1.68%	0.0%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Kazakhstan	1.24%	0.9%
192nd	Malta	1.19%	8.6%
193rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
194th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.89%	-1.1%
197th	Algeria	0.82%	0.0%
198th	Bahrain	0.80%	3.2%
199th	Iceland	0.49%	1.0%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.32%	-1.6%
203rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	-7.1%
208th	Oman	0.01%	-6.7%
209th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
211th	Monaco	0.00%	-
212th	Nauru	0.00%	-
213th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Algeria's forest area in 2016?▾

Algeria's forest area in 2016 was 0.82%. This ranked 197th globally.

How did Algeria's forest area change in 2016?▾

Algeria's forest area increased by 0.0% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2016?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2016 at 94.95%.

What is the forest area of Algeria in 2016?▾

The forest area of Algeria in 2016 was 0.82%. This ranked 197th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Algeria's forest area?▾

Algeria's forest area went from 0.82% in 2015 to 0.82% in 2016, a 0.0% increase.

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