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Botswana - Forest Area 2000

Name: Botswana Forest Area 2000
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

31.09% −0.21% from 1999 Global rank: 105th

Botswana's forest area was 31.09% in 2000, decreased +0.21% from 31.30% in 1999. This was the 105th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2000▾

Forest Area by Country - 2000
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.58%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.31%	0.0%
3rd	Equatorial Guinea	93.25%	-0.3%
4th	Gabon	91.98%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.23%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.66%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	88.65%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	86.04%	0.4%
9th	Liberia	85.37%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.11%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	76.42%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	75.50%	-0.2%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	75.33%	-0.4%
14th	Finland	73.69%	0.3%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	69.48%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.14%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.25%	0.0%
20th	Korea	67.14%	-0.1%
21st	Brazil	65.93%	-0.7%
22nd	Bhutan	65.48%	0.4%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	64.99%	-0.1%
24th	Belize	63.98%	-1.0%
25th	Dominica	63.83%	-0.5%
26th	Timor-Leste	63.83%	-0.1%
27th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	63.47%	-0.5%
28th	Zambia	63.30%	-0.1%
29th	Angola	62.33%	-0.2%
30th	Slovenia	61.22%	0.4%
31st	Cambodia	61.08%	-0.2%
32nd	São Tomé and Principe	60.79%	0.0%
33rd	Tanzania	60.59%	-0.7%
34th	Honduras	60.58%	-0.3%
35th	Samoa	60.53%	-0.3%
36th	Malaysia	59.93%	-0.5%
37th	Panama	59.75%	-0.4%
38th	Peru	58.83%	-0.2%
39th	Virgin Islands (US)	58.49%	-1.9%
40th	Paraguay	57.87%	-1.1%
41st	Colombia	56.54%	-0.4%
42nd	Costa Rica	55.96%	-0.2%
43rd	Ecuador	55.28%	-0.7%
44th	Fiji	55.09%	0.7%
45th	Indonesia	53.94%	-5.1%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.88%	-0.2%
47th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	53.61%	-0.7%
48th	Myanmar	53.35%	-1.2%
49th	Estonia	52.82%	0.1%
50th	Mozambique	52.38%	-0.5%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Latvia	52.08%	0.2%
53rd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	50.86%	-0.5%
56th	Russian Federation	49.40%	0.0%
57th	Puerto Rico (US)	48.38%	2.6%
58th	Jamaica	48.11%	0.0%
59th	Zimbabwe	47.48%	-0.3%
60th	Austria	46.51%	0.2%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.13%	-0.2%
62nd	Senegal	45.98%	-0.5%
63rd	New Caledonia	45.83%	0.1%
64th	Cameroon	45.69%	-0.4%
65th	Nicaragua	44.87%	-1.8%
66th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
67th	French Polynesia	42.80%	5.7%
68th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
69th	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.3%
70th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.24%	-0.5%
71st	Dominican Republic	40.83%	2.0%
72nd	Belarus	40.78%	0.6%
73rd	Sierra Leone	40.59%	-0.7%
74th	Nepal	40.33%	-0.1%
75th	Georgia	39.73%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.53%	0.0%
77th	Guatemala	39.28%	-1.3%
78th	Ghana	38.89%	-1.2%
79th	Canada	38.79%	0.0%
80th	European Union	37.99%	0.1%
81st	Viet Nam	37.88%	6.8%
82nd	North Macedonia	37.65%	0.5%
83rd	New Zealand	37.41%	0.5%
84th	Thailand	37.19%	-0.2%
85th	Central African Republic	36.76%	-0.1%
86th	Benin	36.67%	-1.7%
87th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
88th	Portugal	35.86%	-0.4%
89th	Gambia, The	35.31%	-1.6%
90th	Mexico	35.18%	-0.3%
91st	Sri Lanka	34.55%	-0.8%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.44%	-0.1%
93rd	Spain	34.26%	2.0%
94th	Czechia	34.13%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Croatia	33.71%	0.2%
97th	Luxembourg	33.68%	-
98th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
99th	Norway	33.16%	0.0%
100th	United States	33.13%	0.0%
101st	Malawi	32.69%	-1.3%
102nd	Germany	32.54%	0.1%
103rd	El Salvador	32.52%	-0.7%
104th	Lithuania	32.23%	0.4%
105th	Botswana	31.09%	-0.7%
106th	Bulgaria	30.51%	0.1%
107th	Switzerland	30.26%	0.4%
108th	Poland	29.58%	0.2%
109th	France	28.37%	0.6%
110th	Italy	28.30%	0.4%
111th	Guinea	28.20%	-0.5%
112th	Albania	28.08%	-0.3%
113th	Greece	27.93%	0.8%
114th	Romania	27.71%	-0.1%
115th	Eswatini	27.52%	0.3%
116th	Nigeria	27.33%	-0.7%
117th	Burkina Faso	26.38%	-0.7%
118th	Türkiye	26.18%	0.2%
119th	Singapore	25.39%	1.3%
120th	Philippines	24.51%	-0.6%
121st	British Virgin Islands	24.47%	-0.1%
122nd	Togo	23.32%	-0.7%
123rd	India	22.73%	0.5%
124th	Cuba	22.67%	1.6%
125th	Madagascar	22.41%	-0.5%
126th	Comoros	22.40%	-1.0%
127th	Belgium	22.00%	-
128th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.48%	-0.7%
129th	Hungary	21.44%	0.8%
130th	Chile	21.27%	0.4%
131st	Mauritius	20.66%	0.2%
132nd	China	18.85%	1.1%
133rd	Cyprus	18.57%	0.6%
134th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
135th	Australia	17.16%	-0.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.41%	0.2%
138th	Côte d'Ivoire	16.02%	-5.1%
139th	Uganda	15.83%	-1.3%
140th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
141st	South Africa	14.66%	-0.2%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Denmark	14.29%	0.7%
144th	Haiti	13.81%	-0.1%
145th	Lebanon	13.51%	-0.1%
146th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
147th	Morocco	12.34%	0.0%
148th	United Kingdom	12.21%	0.6%
149th	Argentina	12.20%	-0.5%
150th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.98%	-1.0%
151st	Azerbaijan	11.95%	0.6%
152nd	Armenia	11.68%	-0.1%
153rd	Rwanda	11.63%	-1.0%
154th	Eritrea	11.07%	-0.3%
155th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
156th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.65%	0.4%
158th	Moldova	10.47%	0.6%
159th	Cabo Verde	9.86%	6.5%
160th	Namibia	9.79%	-0.9%
161st	Mongolia	9.22%	-0.1%
162nd	Ireland	9.15%	2.8%
163rd	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
164th	Uruguay	7.82%	4.4%
165th	Burundi	7.55%	-4.1%
166th	Israel	7.07%	1.4%
167th	Kenya	6.96%	0.3%
168th	Uzbekistan	6.79%	-1.0%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.16%	0.4%
170th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
171st	Pakistan	5.85%	-1.0%
172nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.73%	0.3%
173rd	Chad	5.05%	-0.6%
174th	United Arab Emirates	4.36%	2.1%
175th	Tunisia	4.30%	0.4%
176th	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
177th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
178th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
179th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.35%	1.4%
180th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
181st	Iraq	1.87%	0.2%
182nd	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
183rd	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
184th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
185th	Kazakhstan	1.17%	0.0%
186th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
187th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
188th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
189th	Niger	1.05%	-4.4%
190th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
191st	Algeria	0.66%	-0.6%
192nd	Bahrain	0.52%	4.2%
193rd	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
194th	Mauritania	0.41%	-1.3%
195th	Iceland	0.30%	4.5%
196th	Kuwait	0.27%	3.0%
197th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
198th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
199th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	2.7%
200th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
201st	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
202nd	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
203rd	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
204th	Monaco	0.00%	-
205th	Nauru	0.00%	-
206th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Botswana's forest area in 2000?▾

Botswana's forest area in 2000 was 31.09%. This ranked 105th globally.

How did Botswana's forest area change in 2000?▾

Botswana's forest area decreased by 0.7% in 2000 compared to 1999.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2000?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2000 at 95.58%.

What is the forest area of Botswana in 2000?▾

The forest area of Botswana in 2000 was 31.09%. This ranked 105th globally.

How does 2000 compare to 1999 for Botswana's forest area?▾

Botswana's forest area went from 31.30% in 1999 to 31.09% in 2000, a 0.7% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Botswana matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 2000. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 8.0%. View full analysis →

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