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Costa Rica - Forest Area 1994

Name: Costa Rica Forest Area 1994
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

56.55% −0.10% from 1993 Global rank: 44th

Costa Rica's forest area was 56.55% in 1994, decreased +0.10% from 56.65% in 1993. This was the 44th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1994▾

Forest Area by Country - 1994
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.71%	0.0%
2nd	Equatorial Guinea	95.03%	-0.3%
3rd	Guyana	94.42%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.12%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	90.99%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.82%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	89.67%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	87.25%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	84.18%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.27%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	78.22%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	77.15%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.58%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Finland	72.57%	0.3%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.64%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	71.63%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	68.99%	0.0%
19th	Brazil	68.65%	-0.7%
20th	Japan	68.35%	0.0%
21st	Belize	67.68%	-0.9%
22nd	Korea	67.60%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	65.78%	-0.5%
24th	Virgin Islands (US)	65.46%	-1.7%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	65.26%	-0.5%
26th	Congo, Republic of	65.20%	-0.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.39%	-0.1%
28th	Bhutan	63.98%	17.9%
29th	Zambia	63.59%	-0.1%
30th	Tanzania	63.11%	-0.7%
31st	Angola	63.08%	-0.2%
32nd	Cambodia	61.84%	-0.2%
33rd	Paraguay	61.73%	-1.0%
34th	Honduras	61.70%	-0.3%
35th	Malaysia	61.63%	-0.5%
36th	Indonesia	61.63%	-1.5%
37th	Samoa	61.56%	-0.3%
38th	Panama	61.09%	-0.4%
39th	São Tomé and Principe	60.95%	0.0%
40th	Slovenia	59.88%	0.4%
41st	Peru	59.37%	-0.2%
42nd	Colombia	57.75%	-0.3%
43rd	Myanmar	57.35%	-1.1%
44th	Costa Rica	56.55%	-0.2%
45th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	55.88%	-0.7%
46th	Cayman Islands	54.38%	-0.2%
47th	Mozambique	54.05%	-0.5%
48th	Fiji	52.90%	0.7%
49th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	52.36%	-0.5%
50th	Estonia	52.35%	0.1%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Ecuador	51.55%	-0.6%
54th	Latvia	51.43%	0.2%
55th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
56th	Nicaragua	49.85%	-1.6%
57th	Russian Federation	49.39%	0.0%
58th	Zimbabwe	48.19%	-0.2%
59th	Jamaica	48.12%	0.0%
60th	Senegal	47.39%	-0.5%
61st	Cameroon	46.83%	-0.4%
62nd	Trinidad and Tobago	46.76%	-0.2%
63rd	Austria	46.06%	0.2%
64th	New Caledonia	45.61%	0.1%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	Guatemala	42.48%	-1.2%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.40%	-0.5%
68th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
69th	Sierra Leone	42.22%	-0.6%
70th	Ghana	41.72%	-1.1%
71st	Liechtenstein	41.13%	0.3%
72nd	Puerto Rico (US)	41.02%	3.1%
73rd	Benin	40.40%	-1.5%
74th	Nepal	39.97%	0.2%
75th	French Polynesia	39.91%	0.3%
76th	Georgia	39.65%	0.0%
77th	Slovak Republic	39.54%	0.0%
78th	Belarus	39.32%	0.6%
79th	Canada	38.82%	0.0%
80th	Gambia, The	38.71%	-1.4%
81st	Thailand	37.61%	-0.2%
82nd	European Union	37.12%	0.5%
83rd	Central African Republic	37.05%	-0.1%
84th	Portugal	36.63%	-0.4%
85th	North Macedonia	36.58%	0.5%
86th	New Zealand	36.32%	0.5%
87th	Sri Lanka	36.31%	-0.8%
88th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
89th	Dominican Republic	36.14%	2.2%
90th	Mexico	35.86%	-0.3%
91st	Malawi	35.36%	-1.2%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.70%	-0.1%
93rd	Czechia	34.07%	0.0%
94th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
95th	El Salvador	33.83%	-0.6%
96th	Croatia	33.34%	0.2%
97th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
98th	Norway	33.20%	0.0%
99th	United States	33.07%	0.0%
100th	Germany	32.43%	0.1%
101st	Botswana	32.34%	-0.6%
102nd	Viet Nam	31.77%	2.4%
103rd	Lithuania	31.51%	0.4%
104th	Spain	30.39%	2.1%
105th	Bulgaria	30.25%	0.1%
106th	Switzerland	29.61%	0.4%
107th	Poland	29.23%	0.2%
108th	Guinea	29.05%	-0.5%
109th	Albania	28.50%	-0.2%
110th	Nigeria	28.41%	-0.6%
111th	Romania	27.75%	0.0%
112th	Burkina Faso	27.47%	-0.7%
113th	France	27.42%	0.6%
114th	Eswatini	27.09%	0.3%
115th	Italy	26.87%	1.0%
116th	Greece	26.53%	0.9%
117th	Türkiye	25.89%	0.2%
118th	Philippines	25.46%	-0.6%
119th	British Virgin Islands	24.63%	-0.1%
120th	Togo	24.35%	-0.7%
121st	Comoros	23.81%	-1.0%
122nd	Singapore	23.44%	1.4%
123rd	Madagascar	23.09%	-0.5%
124th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.38%	-0.7%
125th	India	22.00%	0.6%
126th	Côte d'Ivoire	21.22%	-3.9%
127th	Chile	20.81%	0.4%
128th	Hungary	20.66%	0.6%
129th	Cuba	20.57%	1.7%
130th	Mauritius	20.40%	0.2%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	17.89%	0.6%
133rd	China	17.58%	1.2%
134th	Australia	17.32%	-0.2%
135th	Uganda	17.07%	-1.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.17%	0.3%
138th	South Africa	14.84%	-0.2%
139th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Haiti	13.86%	-0.1%
142nd	Denmark	13.69%	0.7%
143rd	Lebanon	13.60%	-0.1%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.71%	-1.0%
145th	Argentina	12.60%	-0.5%
146th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
147th	Rwanda	12.36%	-1.0%
148th	Morocco	12.31%	0.0%
149th	United Kingdom	11.77%	0.6%
150th	Armenia	11.73%	-0.1%
151st	Azerbaijan	11.56%	0.4%
152nd	Eritrea	11.26%	-0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Netherlands	10.40%	0.4%
156th	Namibia	10.31%	-0.8%
157th	Moldova	10.11%	0.6%
158th	Burundi	9.48%	-3.3%
159th	Mongolia	9.25%	-0.1%
160th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
161st	Ireland	7.68%	3.3%
162nd	Kenya	6.85%	0.3%
163rd	Israel	6.49%	1.5%
164th	Uzbekistan	6.38%	1.5%
165th	Cabo Verde	6.23%	10.7%
166th	Pakistan	6.22%	-1.0%
167th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
168th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.02%	0.4%
169th	Uruguay	5.86%	5.9%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.63%	0.3%
171st	Chad	5.22%	-0.6%
172nd	Tunisia	4.21%	0.4%
173rd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	3.81%	2.4%
175th	Tajikistan	2.92%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.16%	1.5%
179th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
180th	Iraq	1.85%	0.2%
181st	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
182nd	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
183rd	Niger	1.34%	-3.5%
184th	Kazakhstan	1.17%	0.0%
185th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
186th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
187th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
188th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
189th	Algeria	0.69%	-0.5%
190th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
191st	Mauritania	0.44%	-1.2%
192nd	Bahrain	0.39%	5.7%
193rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
194th	Kuwait	0.23%	3.6%
195th	Iceland	0.22%	6.1%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
198th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.2%
199th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
200th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
201st	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
202nd	Monaco	0.00%	-
203rd	Nauru	0.00%	-
204th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Costa Rica's forest area in 1994?▾

Costa Rica's forest area in 1994 was 56.55%. This ranked 44th globally.

How did Costa Rica's forest area change in 1994?▾

Costa Rica's forest area decreased by 0.2% in 1994 compared to 1993.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1994?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1994 at 95.71%.

What is the forest area of Costa Rica in 1994?▾

The forest area of Costa Rica in 1994 was 56.55%. This ranked 44th globally.

How does 1994 compare to 1993 for Costa Rica's forest area?▾

Costa Rica's forest area went from 56.65% in 1993 to 56.55% in 1994, a 0.2% decrease.

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