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Costa Rica - Forest Area 2011

Name: Costa Rica Forest Area 2011
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

56.55% +0.32% from 2010 Global rank: 40th

Costa Rica's forest area was 56.55% in 2011, increased +0.32% from 56.23% in 2010. This was the 40th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2011▾

Forest Area by Country - 2011
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.26%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	94.02%	-0.1%
3rd	Gabon	91.74%	-0.1%
4th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.65%	0.0%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.37%	0.0%
6th	Equatorial Guinea	89.97%	-0.3%
7th	Palau	88.36%	0.2%
8th	American Samoa	87.00%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	81.91%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.82%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.30%	0.2%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	Lao PDR	73.25%	-0.2%
14th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
15th	Guinea-Bissau	73.11%	-0.4%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	71.03%	0.1%
18th	Sweden	68.87%	-0.1%
19th	Japan	68.48%	0.0%
20th	Korea	65.61%	-0.1%
21st	Northern Mariana Islands	65.55%	-0.5%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.61%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	62.79%	-0.1%
25th	Zambia	62.56%	-0.4%
26th	Slovenia	61.91%	0.0%
27th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
28th	Brazil	61.02%	-0.3%
29th	Belize	60.49%	-0.8%
30th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	60.02%	-0.8%
31st	São Tomé and Principe	59.88%	-1.1%
32nd	Fiji	59.11%	0.6%
33rd	Samoa	58.66%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	58.57%	-0.3%
35th	Panama	58.07%	-0.3%
36th	Cambodia	58.01%	-3.3%
37th	Malaysia	57.98%	0.5%
38th	Peru	57.72%	-0.2%
39th	Angola	57.43%	-0.8%
40th	Costa Rica	56.55%	0.6%
41st	Tanzania	55.97%	-0.7%
42nd	Estonia	55.51%	0.7%
43rd	Puerto Rico (US)	55.46%	0.1%
44th	Colombia	54.69%	-0.2%
45th	Latvia	54.25%	0.1%
46th	Virgin Islands (US)	53.07%	0.8%
47th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
48th	Indonesia	52.59%	-0.9%
49th	Ecuador	52.29%	-0.3%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Jamaica	51.92%	0.7%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.67%	-0.3%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Russian Federation	49.77%	0.0%
56th	Mozambique	49.30%	-0.5%
57th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	48.81%	-0.4%
58th	Paraguay	48.22%	-2.1%
59th	Myanmar	47.68%	-0.9%
60th	Austria	46.86%	0.1%
61st	Zimbabwe	46.17%	-0.3%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.89%	0.0%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	45.22%	-0.2%
64th	Guam	44.81%	0.8%
65th	Cameroon	44.10%	-0.3%
66th	Senegal	43.78%	-0.5%
67th	Viet Nam	43.16%	1.0%
68th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
69th	Dominican Republic	43.04%	0.3%
70th	Belarus	42.53%	0.0%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.29%	0.6%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.90%	0.0%
77th	Thailand	39.29%	0.0%
78th	European Union	39.28%	0.2%
79th	Canada	38.73%	0.0%
80th	North Macedonia	38.35%	0.7%
81st	Sierra Leone	37.58%	-0.7%
82nd	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
83rd	Spain	37.10%	0.0%
84th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	36.23%	-0.1%
86th	Portugal	35.64%	0.4%
87th	Ghana	34.85%	-0.2%
88th	Lithuania	34.68%	0.2%
89th	Bulgaria	34.60%	0.5%
90th	Guatemala	34.48%	-0.7%
91st	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
92nd	Czechia	34.44%	0.1%
93rd	Mexico	34.37%	-0.2%
94th	Nicaragua	34.34%	-1.3%
95th	Croatia	34.31%	0.0%
96th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
97th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
98th	United States	33.78%	0.1%
99th	Sri Lanka	33.63%	0.2%
100th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
101st	Norway	33.16%	0.1%
102nd	Germany	32.74%	0.0%
103rd	Benin	31.79%	-1.4%
104th	Switzerland	31.34%	0.3%
105th	Serbia	31.03%	0.0%
106th	Italy	30.71%	0.6%
107th	France	30.62%	0.5%
108th	Poland	30.52%	0.2%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	El Salvador	30.13%	-0.7%
111th	Gambia, The	29.08%	-1.9%
112th	Botswana	28.80%	-0.7%
113th	Romania	28.64%	1.1%
114th	Albania	28.59%	0.2%
115th	Eswatini	28.29%	0.3%
116th	Cuba	27.91%	1.3%
117th	Malawi	27.79%	-1.6%
118th	Türkiye	27.54%	0.5%
119th	Guinea	26.59%	-0.5%
120th	Nigeria	25.36%	-0.7%
121st	Singapore	24.84%	-1.7%
122nd	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	-
123rd	Burkina Faso	24.37%	-0.7%
124th	British Virgin Islands	24.24%	-0.1%
125th	India	23.46%	0.4%
126th	Philippines	23.06%	0.5%
127th	Belgium	22.74%	0.0%
128th	Chile	22.73%	1.0%
129th	Togo	22.72%	-0.2%
130th	Hungary	22.64%	0.1%
131st	China	21.57%	1.0%
132nd	Madagascar	21.57%	-0.1%
133rd	Comoros	19.81%	-1.2%
134th	Antigua and Barbuda	19.80%	-0.8%
135th	Mauritius	19.21%	1.6%
136th	Cyprus	18.70%	0.0%
137th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
138th	Australia	16.96%	0.5%
139th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
140th	Ukraine	16.52%	0.2%
141st	Denmark	14.85%	1.3%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.50%	-0.1%
144th	South Africa	14.33%	-0.2%
145th	Haiti	13.62%	-0.8%
146th	Uganda	13.51%	-1.5%
147th	Lebanon	13.48%	0.4%
148th	United Kingdom	12.72%	0.6%
149th	Morocco	12.72%	0.0%
150th	Azerbaijan	12.60%	0.9%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Côte d'Ivoire	12.12%	-2.8%
153rd	Armenia	11.60%	-0.1%
154th	Moldova	11.47%	0.6%
155th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
156th	Netherlands	11.02%	-0.4%
157th	Argentina	10.96%	-0.7%
158th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
159th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	-
160th	Rwanda	10.78%	0.4%
161st	Cabo Verde	10.67%	0.7%
162nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.63%	-1.1%
163rd	Ireland	10.56%	1.0%
164th	Uruguay	10.11%	2.2%
165th	Mongolia	9.11%	0.0%
166th	Eritrea	8.95%	-0.3%
167th	Namibia	8.84%	-1.0%
168th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
169th	Burundi	8.22%	8.8%
170th	Uzbekistan	7.78%	1.2%
171st	Israel	7.22%	1.4%
172nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.56%	0.0%
173rd	Kyrgyz Republic	6.43%	0.4%
174th	Kenya	6.32%	-0.5%
175th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
176th	Pakistan	5.27%	-0.8%
177th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
178th	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
179th	Tunisia	4.43%	0.2%
180th	Chad	4.29%	-2.3%
181st	Tajikistan	2.95%	0.6%
182nd	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
183rd	Syrian Arab Republic	2.71%	1.2%
184th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
185th	Iraq	1.90%	0.0%
186th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
187th	West Bank and Gaza	1.66%	0.4%
188th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
189th	Kazakhstan	1.16%	1.5%
190th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
191st	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
192nd	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
193rd	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
194th	Niger	0.94%	-1.0%
195th	Algeria	0.81%	0.4%
196th	Bahrain	0.70%	2.4%
197th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
198th	Iceland	0.45%	1.6%
199th	Mauritania	0.35%	-1.5%
200th	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
201st	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
202nd	Curaçao	0.16%	-
203rd	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
204th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	-5.2%
205th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
206th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
207th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
208th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
209th	Monaco	0.00%	-
210th	Nauru	0.00%	-
211th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Costa Rica's forest area in 2011?▾

Costa Rica's forest area in 2011 was 56.55%. This ranked 40th globally.

How did Costa Rica's forest area change in 2011?▾

Costa Rica's forest area increased by 0.6% in 2011 compared to 2010.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2011?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2011 at 95.26%.

What is the forest area of Costa Rica in 2011?▾

The forest area of Costa Rica in 2011 was 56.55%. This ranked 40th globally.

How does 2011 compare to 2010 for Costa Rica's forest area?▾

Costa Rica's forest area went from 56.23% in 2010 to 56.55% in 2011, a 0.6% increase.

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