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Bangladesh - Forest Area 2006

Name: Bangladesh Forest Area 2006
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

14.61% −0.02% from 2005 Global rank: 141st

Bangladesh's forest area was 14.61% in 2006, decreased +0.02% from 14.63% in 2005. This was the 141st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2006▾

Forest Area by Country - 2006
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.42%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.17%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.86%	0.0%
4th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.46%	0.0%
5th	Equatorial Guinea	91.46%	-0.3%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.50%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	87.75%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	87.32%	0.2%
9th	Liberia	83.48%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.98%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	74.62%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	74.24%	-0.3%
13th	Finland	73.41%	0.1%
14th	Brunei Darussalam	73.40%	-0.4%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	69.93%	0.4%
18th	Sweden	69.01%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.40%	0.0%
20th	Northern Mariana Islands	67.34%	-0.5%
21st	Korea	66.29%	-0.2%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.78%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	63.26%	-0.1%
25th	Brazil	63.10%	-0.7%
26th	Zambia	63.01%	-0.1%
27th	Belize	62.19%	-0.5%
28th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	61.69%	-0.5%
29th	Slovenia	61.64%	0.1%
30th	São Tomé and Principe	60.63%	0.0%
31st	Cambodia	60.42%	-0.2%
32nd	Angola	59.66%	-0.7%
33rd	Samoa	59.51%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	59.49%	-0.3%
35th	Panama	58.83%	-0.3%
36th	Malaysia	58.58%	-0.4%
37th	Peru	58.24%	-0.2%
38th	Tanzania	58.07%	-0.7%
39th	Fiji	57.28%	0.6%
40th	Costa Rica	56.12%	0.0%
41st	Montenegro	55.51%	-
42nd	Colombia	55.50%	-0.3%
43rd	Virgin Islands (US)	54.99%	-1.0%
44th	Estonia	54.19%	0.4%
45th	Ecuador	53.59%	-0.5%
46th	Indonesia	53.43%	-0.2%
47th	Cayman Islands	53.35%	-0.2%
48th	Latvia	53.35%	0.4%
49th	Paraguay	52.70%	-1.6%
50th	Puerto Rico (US)	52.60%	1.4%
51st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	52.55%	-0.3%
52nd	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
53rd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Mozambique	50.69%	-0.6%
56th	Myanmar	50.21%	-1.1%
57th	Jamaica	50.18%	0.7%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	49.75%	-0.4%
59th	Russian Federation	49.63%	0.1%
60th	Zimbabwe	46.76%	-0.3%
61st	Austria	46.69%	0.1%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.87%	0.0%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	45.63%	-0.2%
64th	Cameroon	44.80%	-0.3%
65th	Senegal	44.78%	-0.4%
66th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
67th	French Polynesia	42.95%	0.1%
68th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
69th	Dominican Republic	42.08%	0.5%
70th	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
71st	Belarus	41.83%	0.4%
72nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.14%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	41.08%	0.3%
74th	Viet Nam	40.75%	1.3%
75th	Georgia	40.26%	0.2%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.74%	0.1%
77th	Sierra Leone	38.95%	-0.7%
78th	Nicaragua	38.83%	-2.5%
79th	Canada	38.76%	0.0%
80th	European Union	38.73%	0.3%
81st	Thailand	38.45%	0.6%
82nd	North Macedonia	37.72%	0.0%
83rd	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
84th	Guatemala	36.56%	-1.2%
85th	Ghana	36.50%	-1.1%
86th	Central African Republic	36.47%	-0.1%
87th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
88th	Spain	36.00%	0.8%
89th	Portugal	35.68%	-0.1%
90th	Mexico	34.73%	-0.2%
91st	Czechia	34.30%	0.1%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.21%	-0.1%
93rd	Luxembourg	34.14%	0.2%
94th	Croatia	34.06%	0.2%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Benin	34.01%	-1.3%
97th	Sri Lanka	33.95%	-0.3%
98th	Lithuania	33.66%	0.7%
99th	United States	33.47%	0.2%
100th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
101st	Norway	33.15%	0.0%
102nd	Bulgaria	33.07%	1.0%
103rd	Germany	32.65%	0.1%
104th	Gambia, The	31.91%	-1.7%
105th	El Salvador	31.22%	-0.7%
106th	Switzerland	30.86%	0.3%
107th	Poland	30.10%	0.3%
108th	Malawi	30.01%	-1.5%
109th	Serbia	29.86%	-
110th	Botswana	29.84%	-0.7%
111th	Italy	29.64%	0.8%
112th	France	29.63%	0.7%
113th	Greece	29.33%	0.8%
114th	Albania	28.36%	0.2%
115th	Romania	28.07%	0.2%
116th	Eswatini	27.94%	0.3%
117th	Guinea	27.32%	-0.5%
118th	Türkiye	26.91%	0.5%
119th	Nigeria	26.26%	-0.7%
120th	Cuba	25.68%	1.9%
121st	Burkina Faso	25.28%	-0.7%
122nd	Singapore	25.14%	-0.3%
123rd	British Virgin Islands	24.35%	-0.1%
124th	Philippines	23.57%	-0.7%
125th	India	23.12%	0.3%
126th	Togo	23.00%	-0.2%
127th	Belgium	22.45%	0.3%
128th	Hungary	22.28%	0.6%
129th	Chile	22.01%	0.6%
130th	Madagascar	21.92%	-0.4%
131st	Comoros	20.98%	-1.1%
132nd	Antigua and Barbuda	20.56%	-0.7%
133rd	China	20.36%	1.3%
134th	Mauritius	19.61%	-0.9%
135th	Cyprus	18.65%	0.1%
136th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
137th	Australia	16.98%	-0.2%
138th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.45%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Bangladesh	14.61%	-0.2%
142nd	Uganda	14.59%	-1.4%
143rd	Denmark	14.51%	0.3%
144th	South Africa	14.48%	-0.2%
145th	Côte d'Ivoire	13.89%	-2.5%
146th	Haiti	13.76%	-0.1%
147th	Lebanon	13.46%	-0.1%
148th	Morocco	12.56%	0.3%
149th	United Kingdom	12.47%	0.3%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Azerbaijan	12.28%	0.5%
152nd	Armenia	11.64%	-0.1%
153rd	Argentina	11.50%	-1.0%
154th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.25%	-1.1%
155th	Rwanda	11.10%	-0.8%
156th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
157th	Moldova	11.02%	0.8%
158th	Netherlands	10.90%	0.4%
159th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
160th	Cabo Verde	10.30%	0.7%
161st	Ireland	9.93%	1.3%
162nd	Namibia	9.27%	-0.9%
163rd	Mongolia	9.13%	-0.2%
164th	Eritrea	9.09%	-0.3%
165th	Uruguay	9.06%	2.3%
166th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
167th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
168th	Uzbekistan	7.33%	1.2%
169th	Israel	7.10%	0.1%
170th	Kenya	6.60%	-0.9%
171st	Kyrgyz Republic	6.31%	0.4%
172nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.23%	1.4%
173rd	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
174th	Pakistan	5.53%	-1.0%
175th	Channel Islands	4.77%	2.1%
176th	Chad	4.65%	-1.4%
177th	United Arab Emirates	4.42%	0.3%
178th	Tunisia	4.37%	0.3%
179th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
180th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
181st	Syrian Arab Republic	2.55%	1.3%
182nd	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
183rd	Iraq	1.88%	0.1%
184th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
185th	West Bank and Gaza	1.60%	0.9%
186th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
187th	Kazakhstan	1.15%	-0.2%
188th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
189th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
190th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
191st	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
192nd	Niger	0.99%	-1.0%
193rd	Algeria	0.75%	1.9%
194th	Bahrain	0.62%	3.4%
195th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
196th	Iceland	0.39%	4.0%
197th	Mauritania	0.38%	-1.4%
198th	Kuwait	0.32%	2.5%
199th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
200th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
201st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	1.0%
202nd	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
203rd	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
204th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
205th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
206th	Monaco	0.00%	-
207th	Nauru	0.00%	-
208th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Bangladesh's forest area in 2006?▾

Bangladesh's forest area in 2006 was 14.61%. This ranked 141st globally.

How did Bangladesh's forest area change in 2006?▾

Bangladesh's forest area decreased by 0.2% in 2006 compared to 2005.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2006?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2006 at 95.42%.

What is the forest area of Bangladesh in 2006?▾

The forest area of Bangladesh in 2006 was 14.61%. This ranked 141st globally.

How does 2006 compare to 2005 for Bangladesh's forest area?▾

Bangladesh's forest area went from 14.63% in 2005 to 14.61% in 2006, a 0.2% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Bangladesh matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2006. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 6.0%. View full analysis →

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