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Burkina Faso - Forest Area 2001

Name: Burkina Faso Forest Area 2001
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

26.19% −0.18% from 2000 Global rank: 118th

Burkina Faso's forest area was 26.19% in 2001, decreased +0.18% from 26.38% in 2000. This was the 118th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2001▾

Forest Area by Country - 2001
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.55%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.28%	0.0%
3rd	Equatorial Guinea	92.95%	-0.3%
4th	Gabon	91.96%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.27%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.63%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	88.50%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	86.26%	0.2%
9th	Liberia	85.05%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.09%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	76.12%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	75.29%	-0.3%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	75.01%	-0.4%
14th	Finland	73.62%	-0.1%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	69.12%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.12%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.27%	0.0%
20th	Korea	66.85%	-0.4%
21st	Bhutan	65.73%	0.4%
22nd	Brazil	65.46%	-0.7%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	64.96%	-0.1%
24th	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
25th	Timor-Leste	63.73%	-0.1%
26th	Belize	63.68%	-0.5%
27th	Zambia	63.25%	-0.1%
28th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	63.18%	-0.5%
29th	Angola	61.89%	-0.7%
30th	Slovenia	61.29%	0.1%
31st	Cambodia	60.97%	-0.2%
32nd	São Tomé and Principe	60.76%	0.0%
33rd	Honduras	60.40%	-0.3%
34th	Samoa	60.36%	-0.3%
35th	Tanzania	60.17%	-0.7%
36th	Malaysia	59.71%	-0.4%
37th	Panama	59.60%	-0.3%
38th	Peru	58.73%	-0.2%
39th	Virgin Islands (US)	57.90%	-1.0%
40th	Paraguay	57.01%	-1.5%
41st	Colombia	56.37%	-0.3%
42nd	Costa Rica	55.99%	0.0%
43rd	Fiji	55.45%	0.7%
44th	Ecuador	55.00%	-0.5%
45th	Indonesia	53.86%	-0.2%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.79%	-0.2%
47th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	53.43%	-0.3%
48th	Estonia	53.05%	0.4%
49th	Myanmar	52.83%	-1.0%
50th	Latvia	52.29%	0.4%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Mozambique	52.09%	-0.5%
53rd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	50.68%	-0.4%
56th	Russian Federation	49.44%	0.1%
57th	Puerto Rico (US)	49.08%	1.5%
58th	Jamaica	48.45%	0.7%
59th	Zimbabwe	47.36%	-0.3%
60th	Austria	46.54%	0.1%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.05%	-0.2%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.84%	0.0%
63rd	Senegal	45.78%	-0.4%
64th	Cameroon	45.54%	-0.3%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	Nicaragua	43.86%	-2.2%
67th	French Polynesia	42.82%	0.1%
68th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
69th	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
70th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.23%	0.0%
71st	Dominican Republic	41.04%	0.5%
72nd	Belarus	40.96%	0.4%
73rd	Nepal	40.45%	0.3%
74th	Sierra Leone	40.31%	-0.7%
75th	Georgia	39.82%	0.2%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.56%	0.1%
77th	Guatemala	38.83%	-1.2%
78th	Canada	38.79%	0.0%
79th	Ghana	38.49%	-1.0%
80th	Viet Nam	38.40%	1.4%
81st	European Union	38.11%	0.3%
82nd	North Macedonia	37.67%	0.0%
83rd	New Zealand	37.41%	0.0%
84th	Thailand	37.40%	0.6%
85th	Central African Republic	36.72%	-0.1%
86th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
87th	Benin	36.23%	-1.2%
88th	Portugal	35.83%	-0.1%
89th	Mexico	35.10%	-0.2%
90th	Gambia, The	34.74%	-1.6%
91st	Spain	34.58%	0.9%
92nd	Sri Lanka	34.45%	-0.3%
93rd	St. Lucia	34.40%	-0.1%
94th	Czechia	34.16%	0.1%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Croatia	33.78%	0.2%
97th	Luxembourg	33.75%	0.2%
98th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
99th	United States	33.19%	0.2%
100th	Norway	33.16%	0.0%
101st	Germany	32.56%	0.1%
102nd	Lithuania	32.47%	0.7%
103rd	El Salvador	32.31%	-0.7%
104th	Malawi	32.24%	-1.4%
105th	Botswana	30.88%	-0.7%
106th	Bulgaria	30.83%	1.1%
107th	Switzerland	30.36%	0.3%
108th	Poland	29.66%	0.3%
109th	France	28.58%	0.7%
110th	Italy	28.52%	0.8%
111th	Greece	28.16%	0.8%
112th	Albania	28.12%	0.2%
113th	Guinea	28.05%	-0.5%
114th	Romania	27.78%	0.2%
115th	Eswatini	27.59%	0.3%
116th	Nigeria	27.15%	-0.7%
117th	Türkiye	26.30%	0.5%
118th	Burkina Faso	26.19%	-0.7%
119th	Singapore	25.50%	0.4%
120th	British Virgin Islands	24.45%	-0.1%
121st	Philippines	24.36%	-0.6%
122nd	Togo	23.27%	-0.2%
123rd	Cuba	23.14%	2.0%
124th	India	22.80%	0.3%
125th	Madagascar	22.33%	-0.4%
126th	Comoros	22.16%	-1.1%
127th	Belgium	22.07%	0.3%
128th	Hungary	21.58%	0.7%
129th	Chile	21.40%	0.6%
130th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.33%	-0.7%
131st	Mauritius	20.48%	-0.8%
132nd	China	19.10%	1.3%
133rd	Cyprus	18.59%	0.1%
134th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
135th	Australia	17.13%	-0.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.42%	0.0%
138th	Côte d'Ivoire	15.67%	-2.2%
139th	Uganda	15.62%	-1.3%
140th	Bangladesh	14.73%	-0.2%
141st	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
142nd	South Africa	14.63%	-0.2%
143rd	Denmark	14.33%	0.3%
144th	Haiti	13.80%	-0.1%
145th	Lebanon	13.50%	-0.1%
146th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
147th	Morocco	12.38%	0.3%
148th	United Kingdom	12.25%	0.4%
149th	Argentina	12.08%	-0.9%
150th	Azerbaijan	12.01%	0.5%
151st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.86%	-1.0%
152nd	Armenia	11.68%	-0.1%
153rd	Rwanda	11.54%	-0.8%
154th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
155th	Eritrea	11.04%	-0.3%
156th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.69%	0.4%
158th	Moldova	10.57%	0.9%
159th	Cabo Verde	9.93%	0.8%
160th	Namibia	9.70%	-0.9%
161st	Ireland	9.28%	1.4%
162nd	Mongolia	9.21%	-0.1%
163rd	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
164th	Uruguay	8.03%	2.6%
165th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
166th	Israel	7.07%	0.1%
167th	Kenya	6.90%	-0.9%
168th	Uzbekistan	6.88%	1.3%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.18%	0.4%
170th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
171st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.81%	1.5%
172nd	Pakistan	5.80%	-0.9%
173rd	Chad	4.98%	-1.3%
174th	United Arab Emirates	4.37%	0.3%
175th	Tunisia	4.31%	0.3%
176th	Channel Islands	4.29%	2.3%
177th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
178th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
179th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.38%	1.4%
180th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
181st	Iraq	1.87%	0.1%
182nd	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
183rd	West Bank and Gaza	1.52%	1.0%
184th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
185th	Kazakhstan	1.17%	-0.2%
186th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
187th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
188th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
189th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
190th	Niger	1.04%	-0.9%
191st	Algeria	0.68%	2.1%
192nd	Bahrain	0.54%	4.1%
193rd	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
194th	Mauritania	0.40%	-1.3%
195th	Iceland	0.31%	5.0%
196th	Kuwait	0.28%	2.9%
197th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
198th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
199th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	1.1%
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 Burkina Faso's forest area in 2001?▾

Burkina Faso's forest area in 2001 was 26.19%. This ranked 118th globally.

How did Burkina Faso's forest area change in 2001?▾

Burkina Faso's forest area decreased by 0.7% in 2001 compared to 2000.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2001?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2001 at 95.55%.

What is the forest area of Burkina Faso in 2001?▾

The forest area of Burkina Faso in 2001 was 26.19%. This ranked 118th globally.

How does 2001 compare to 2000 for Burkina Faso's forest area?▾

Burkina Faso's forest area went from 26.38% in 2000 to 26.19% in 2001, a 0.7% decrease.

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