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Congo, Democratic Republic of - Forest Area 2014

Name: Congo, Democratic Republic of Forest Area 2014
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

58.56% −0.49% from 2013 Global rank: 32nd

Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area was 58.56% in 2014, decreased +0.49% from 59.05% in 2013. This was the 32nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2014▾

Forest Area by Country - 2014
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.08%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	93.84%	-0.1%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.77%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.60%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.29%	0.0%
6th	Equatorial Guinea	89.08%	-0.3%
7th	Palau	88.92%	0.2%
8th	American Samoa	86.55%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	80.97%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.62%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.63%	0.1%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	72.80%	-0.2%
15th	Guinea-Bissau	72.21%	-0.4%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	71.18%	0.1%
18th	Sweden	68.74%	-0.1%
19th	Japan	68.45%	0.0%
20th	Korea	65.14%	-0.2%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.50%	-0.1%
22nd	Northern Mariana Islands	64.47%	-0.6%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	62.51%	-0.2%
25th	Slovenia	61.96%	0.0%
26th	Zambia	61.80%	-0.4%
27th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
28th	Brazil	60.47%	-0.3%
29th	Fiji	60.20%	0.6%
30th	Belize	58.95%	-0.9%
31st	Malaysia	58.93%	0.5%
32nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	58.56%	-0.8%
33rd	Samoa	58.15%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	57.97%	-0.3%
35th	São Tomé and Principe	57.94%	-1.1%
36th	Panama	57.78%	0.0%
37th	Costa Rica	57.51%	0.6%
38th	Peru	57.32%	-0.2%
39th	Angola	56.10%	-0.8%
40th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.63%	0.1%
41st	Estonia	55.30%	0.7%
42nd	Tanzania	54.71%	-0.8%
43rd	Latvia	54.44%	0.1%
44th	Virgin Islands (US)	54.33%	0.8%
45th	Colombia	54.32%	-0.2%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
47th	Jamaica	52.97%	0.7%
48th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
49th	Cambodia	52.09%	-3.7%
50th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
51st	Ecuador	51.78%	-0.3%
52nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.14%	-0.3%
53rd	Indonesia	51.11%	-1.0%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Russian Federation	49.76%	0.0%
56th	Mozambique	48.51%	-0.5%
57th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	48.22%	-0.4%
58th	Austria	46.99%	0.1%
59th	Myanmar	46.37%	-0.9%
60th	Guam	45.93%	0.8%
61st	New Caledonia	45.88%	0.0%
62nd	Zimbabwe	45.81%	-0.3%
63rd	Paraguay	45.09%	-2.3%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	44.97%	-0.2%
65th	Viet Nam	44.44%	0.9%
66th	Cameroon	43.74%	-0.3%
67th	Dominican Republic	43.42%	0.3%
68th	Senegal	43.15%	-0.5%
69th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
70th	Belarus	42.53%	0.0%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
72nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.97%	0.5%
73rd	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
74th	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.95%	0.1%
77th	European Union	39.51%	0.2%
78th	Thailand	39.27%	0.0%
79th	North Macedonia	39.16%	0.7%
80th	Canada	38.72%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
82nd	Spain	37.08%	0.0%
83rd	Sierra Leone	36.76%	-0.7%
84th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	36.09%	-0.1%
86th	Portugal	36.02%	0.4%
87th	Bulgaria	35.13%	0.5%
88th	Lithuania	34.85%	0.2%
89th	Ghana	34.69%	-0.2%
90th	Czechia	34.53%	0.1%
91st	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
92nd	Croatia	34.34%	0.0%
93rd	Mexico	34.18%	-0.2%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	United States	33.87%	0.1%
97th	Sri Lanka	33.87%	0.2%
98th	Guatemala	33.72%	-0.8%
99th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
100th	Norway	33.23%	0.1%
101st	Nicaragua	32.94%	-1.4%
102nd	Germany	32.72%	0.0%
103rd	Switzerland	31.60%	0.3%
104th	Italy	31.26%	0.6%
105th	France	31.08%	0.5%
106th	Serbia	31.08%	0.0%
107th	Poland	30.71%	0.2%
108th	Benin	30.46%	-1.4%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	Cuba	30.12%	1.8%
111th	Romania	29.66%	1.1%
112th	El Salvador	29.48%	-0.7%
113th	Albania	28.75%	0.2%
114th	Eswatini	28.51%	0.2%
115th	Botswana	28.17%	-0.7%
116th	Türkiye	27.96%	0.5%
117th	Gambia, The	27.38%	-2.0%
118th	Malawi	26.45%	-1.7%
119th	Guinea	26.15%	-0.6%
120th	Nigeria	24.82%	-0.7%
121st	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.16%	-0.1%
123rd	Burkina Faso	23.82%	-0.8%
124th	India	23.73%	0.4%
125th	Singapore	23.59%	-1.8%
126th	Chile	23.49%	1.3%
127th	Philippines	23.41%	0.5%
128th	Belgium	22.73%	0.0%
129th	Togo	22.56%	-0.2%
130th	Hungary	22.55%	-0.7%
131st	China	22.19%	0.9%
132nd	Madagascar	21.50%	-0.1%
133rd	Antigua and Barbuda	19.35%	-0.8%
134th	Mauritius	19.19%	0.0%
135th	Comoros	19.10%	-1.2%
136th	Cyprus	18.69%	0.0%
137th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
138th	Australia	17.23%	0.5%
139th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
140th	Ukraine	16.63%	0.2%
141st	Denmark	15.43%	1.3%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.48%	-0.1%
144th	South Africa	14.24%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.66%	0.4%
146th	Haiti	13.28%	-0.8%
147th	United Kingdom	12.96%	0.6%
148th	Azerbaijan	12.93%	0.9%
149th	Uganda	12.89%	-1.6%
150th	Morocco	12.73%	0.0%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Moldova	11.68%	0.6%
153rd	Armenia	11.58%	-0.1%
154th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
155th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
156th	Côte d'Ivoire	11.05%	-3.1%
157th	Rwanda	10.90%	0.4%
158th	Cabo Verde	10.90%	0.7%
159th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
160th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
161st	Netherlands	10.88%	-0.5%
162nd	Ireland	10.86%	0.9%
163rd	Uruguay	10.75%	2.0%
164th	Argentina	10.71%	-0.8%
165th	Sudan	10.38%	-0.9%
166th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.27%	-1.2%
167th	Burundi	10.22%	7.0%
168th	Mongolia	9.11%	0.0%
169th	Eritrea	8.88%	-0.3%
170th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
171st	Namibia	8.58%	-1.0%
172nd	Uzbekistan	8.05%	1.2%
173rd	Israel	7.52%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.56%	0.0%
175th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.50%	0.4%
176th	Kenya	6.22%	-0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	5.14%	-0.8%
180th	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
181st	Tunisia	4.46%	0.2%
182nd	Chad	3.99%	-2.5%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.02%	1.4%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.81%	1.2%
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%	0.4%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Kazakhstan	1.21%	1.4%
192nd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
193rd	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
194th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.91%	-1.1%
197th	Algeria	0.82%	0.4%
198th	Bahrain	0.76%	2.7%
199th	Iceland	0.47%	1.5%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.34%	-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%	-6.2%
208th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
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 Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area in 2014?▾

Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area in 2014 was 58.56%. This ranked 32nd globally.

How did Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area change in 2014?▾

Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area decreased by 0.8% in 2014 compared to 2013.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2014?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2014 at 95.08%.

What is the forest area of Congo, Democratic Republic of in 2014?▾

The forest area of Congo, Democratic Republic of in 2014 was 58.56%. This ranked 32nd globally.

How does 2014 compare to 2013 for Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area?▾

Congo, Democratic Republic of's forest area went from 59.05% in 2013 to 58.56% in 2014, a 0.8% decrease.

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