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Costa Rica - Forest Area 2007

Name: Costa Rica Forest Area 2007
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

56.15% +0.03% from 2006 Global rank: 41st

Costa Rica's forest area was 56.15% in 2007, increased +0.03% from 56.12% in 2006. This was the 41st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2007▾

Forest Area by Country - 2007
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.40%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.15%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.84%	0.0%
4th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.50%	0.0%
5th	Equatorial Guinea	91.16%	-0.3%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.48%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	87.60%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	87.53%	0.2%
9th	Liberia	83.17%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.96%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	74.32%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	74.03%	-0.3%
13th	Finland	73.34%	-0.1%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	73.07%	-0.4%
17th	Bhutan	70.19%	0.4%
18th	Sweden	68.98%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.42%	0.0%
20th	Northern Mariana Islands	66.98%	-0.5%
21st	Korea	66.18%	-0.2%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.75%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	63.17%	-0.1%
25th	Zambia	62.96%	-0.1%
26th	Brazil	62.63%	-0.7%
27th	Belize	61.89%	-0.5%
28th	Slovenia	61.71%	0.1%
29th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	61.40%	-0.5%
30th	São Tomé and Principe	60.60%	0.0%
31st	Cambodia	60.31%	-0.2%
32nd	Samoa	59.34%	-0.3%
33rd	Honduras	59.31%	-0.3%
34th	Angola	59.21%	-0.7%
35th	Panama	58.68%	-0.3%
36th	Malaysia	58.35%	-0.4%
37th	Peru	58.14%	-0.2%
38th	Tanzania	57.65%	-0.7%
39th	Fiji	57.65%	0.6%
40th	Montenegro	57.00%	2.7%
41st	Costa Rica	56.15%	0.0%
42nd	Colombia	55.33%	-0.3%
43rd	Estonia	54.42%	0.4%
44th	Virgin Islands (US)	54.41%	-1.1%
45th	Latvia	53.56%	0.4%
46th	Indonesia	53.34%	-0.2%
47th	Ecuador	53.31%	-0.5%
48th	Puerto Rico (US)	53.30%	1.3%
49th	Cayman Islands	53.26%	-0.2%
50th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	52.37%	-0.3%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Paraguay	51.84%	-1.6%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Jamaica	50.53%	0.7%
56th	Mozambique	50.40%	-0.6%
57th	Myanmar	49.68%	-1.1%
58th	Russian Federation	49.66%	0.1%
59th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	49.56%	-0.4%
60th	Austria	46.72%	0.1%
61st	Zimbabwe	46.64%	-0.3%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.88%	0.0%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	45.55%	-0.2%
64th	Cameroon	44.66%	-0.3%
65th	Senegal	44.58%	-0.4%
66th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
67th	French Polynesia	42.98%	0.1%
68th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
69th	Dominican Republic	42.29%	0.5%
70th	Belarus	42.01%	0.4%
71st	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
72nd	Viet Nam	41.29%	1.3%
73rd	Nepal	41.21%	0.3%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.12%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.35%	0.2%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.77%	0.1%
77th	European Union	38.85%	0.3%
78th	Canada	38.76%	0.0%
79th	Sierra Leone	38.67%	-0.7%
80th	Thailand	38.66%	0.5%
81st	North Macedonia	38.03%	0.8%
82nd	Nicaragua	37.82%	-2.6%
83rd	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
84th	Central African Republic	36.43%	-0.1%
85th	Spain	36.28%	0.8%
86th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
87th	Ghana	36.10%	-1.1%
88th	Guatemala	36.10%	-1.2%
89th	Portugal	35.65%	-0.1%
90th	Mexico	34.66%	-0.2%
91st	Czechia	34.32%	0.1%
92nd	Luxembourg	34.22%	0.2%
93rd	St. Lucia	34.17%	-0.1%
94th	Croatia	34.12%	0.2%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Lithuania	33.90%	0.7%
97th	Sri Lanka	33.85%	-0.3%
98th	Benin	33.57%	-1.3%
99th	United States	33.53%	0.2%
100th	Bulgaria	33.41%	1.0%
101st	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
102nd	Norway	33.14%	0.0%
103rd	Germany	32.67%	0.1%
104th	Gambia, The	31.34%	-1.8%
105th	El Salvador	31.00%	-0.7%
106th	Switzerland	30.95%	0.3%
107th	Poland	30.19%	0.3%
108th	Serbia	30.15%	1.0%
109th	Italy	29.86%	0.8%
110th	France	29.84%	0.7%
111th	Botswana	29.63%	-0.7%
112th	Malawi	29.57%	-1.5%
113th	Greece	29.57%	0.8%
114th	Albania	28.40%	0.2%
115th	Romania	28.15%	0.3%
116th	Eswatini	28.01%	0.3%
117th	Guinea	27.17%	-0.5%
118th	Türkiye	27.03%	0.5%
119th	Cuba	26.15%	1.8%
120th	Nigeria	26.08%	-0.7%
121st	Singapore	25.21%	0.3%
122nd	Burkina Faso	25.10%	-0.7%
123rd	British Virgin Islands	24.33%	-0.1%
124th	Philippines	23.41%	-0.7%
125th	India	23.18%	0.3%
126th	Togo	22.94%	-0.2%
127th	Belgium	22.52%	0.3%
128th	Hungary	22.42%	0.6%
129th	Chile	22.13%	0.6%
130th	Madagascar	21.84%	-0.4%
131st	Comoros	20.75%	-1.1%
132nd	China	20.61%	1.2%
133rd	Antigua and Barbuda	20.41%	-0.7%
134th	Mauritius	19.43%	-0.9%
135th	Cyprus	18.67%	0.1%
136th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
137th	Australia	16.95%	-0.2%
138th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.46%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Bangladesh	14.58%	-0.2%
142nd	Denmark	14.55%	0.3%
143rd	South Africa	14.45%	-0.2%
144th	Uganda	14.38%	-1.4%
145th	Haiti	13.75%	-0.1%
146th	Côte d'Ivoire	13.54%	-2.6%
147th	Lebanon	13.45%	-0.1%
148th	Morocco	12.60%	0.3%
149th	United Kingdom	12.51%	0.3%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Azerbaijan	12.33%	0.5%
152nd	Armenia	11.63%	-0.1%
153rd	Argentina	11.39%	-1.0%
154th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.12%	-1.1%
155th	Moldova	11.11%	0.8%
156th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
157th	Rwanda	11.01%	-0.8%
158th	Netherlands	10.94%	0.4%
159th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
160th	Cabo Verde	10.38%	0.7%
161st	Ireland	10.06%	1.3%
162nd	Uruguay	9.27%	2.3%
163rd	Namibia	9.19%	-0.9%
164th	Mongolia	9.12%	-0.1%
165th	Eritrea	9.06%	-0.3%
166th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
167th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
168th	Uzbekistan	7.42%	1.2%
169th	Israel	7.10%	0.1%
170th	Kenya	6.54%	-0.9%
171st	Kyrgyz Republic	6.33%	0.4%
172nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.31%	1.3%
173rd	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
174th	Pakistan	5.47%	-1.0%
175th	Channel Islands	4.86%	2.0%
176th	Chad	4.59%	-1.4%
177th	United Arab Emirates	4.43%	0.3%
178th	Tunisia	4.39%	0.3%
179th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
180th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
181st	Syrian Arab Republic	2.58%	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	1.61%	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	0.98%	-1.0%
193rd	Algeria	0.76%	1.9%
194th	Bahrain	0.63%	1.9%
195th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
196th	Iceland	0.40%	3.8%
197th	Mauritania	0.37%	-1.4%
198th	Kuwait	0.33%	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 Costa Rica's forest area in 2007?▾

Costa Rica's forest area in 2007 was 56.15%. This ranked 41st globally.

How did Costa Rica's forest area change in 2007?▾

Costa Rica's forest area increased by 0.0% in 2007 compared to 2006.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2007?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2007 at 95.40%.

What is the forest area of Costa Rica in 2007?▾

The forest area of Costa Rica in 2007 was 56.15%. This ranked 41st globally.

How does 2007 compare to 2006 for Costa Rica's forest area?▾

Costa Rica's forest area went from 56.12% in 2006 to 56.15% in 2007, a 0.0% increase.

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