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Ghana - Forest Area 2009

Name: Ghana Forest Area 2009
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

35.31% −0.40% from 2008 Global rank: 88th

Ghana's forest area was 35.31% in 2009, decreased +0.40% from 35.70% in 2008. This was the 88th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Forest Area by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.35%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.10%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.80%	0.0%
4th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.58%	0.0%
5th	Equatorial Guinea	90.57%	-0.3%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.43%	0.0%
7th	Palau	87.96%	0.2%
8th	American Samoa	87.30%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	82.54%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.91%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	73.72%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	73.61%	-0.3%
13th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
14th	Finland	73.26%	-0.1%
15th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	72.43%	-0.4%
17th	Bhutan	70.71%	0.4%
18th	Sweden	68.94%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.47%	0.0%
20th	Northern Mariana Islands	66.27%	-0.5%
21st	Korea	65.90%	-0.2%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.68%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	62.98%	-0.1%
25th	Zambia	62.86%	-0.1%
26th	Slovenia	61.83%	0.1%
27th	Brazil	61.68%	-0.8%
28th	Belize	61.30%	-0.5%
29th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	60.80%	-0.5%
30th	São Tomé and Principe	60.55%	0.0%
31st	Cambodia	60.10%	-0.2%
32nd	Montenegro	59.99%	2.6%
33rd	Samoa	59.00%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	58.95%	-0.3%
35th	Fiji	58.38%	0.6%
36th	Panama	58.37%	-0.3%
37th	Angola	58.32%	-0.8%
38th	Peru	57.95%	-0.2%
39th	Malaysia	57.90%	-0.4%
40th	Tanzania	56.81%	-0.7%
41st	Costa Rica	56.20%	0.0%
42nd	Colombia	54.98%	-0.3%
43rd	Estonia	54.88%	0.4%
44th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.70%	1.3%
45th	Latvia	53.98%	0.4%
46th	Virgin Islands (US)	53.24%	-1.1%
47th	Indonesia	53.17%	-0.2%
48th	Cayman Islands	53.09%	-0.2%
49th	Ecuador	52.74%	-0.5%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	52.02%	-0.3%
53rd	Jamaica	51.22%	0.7%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Paraguay	50.12%	-1.7%
56th	Mozambique	49.84%	-0.6%
57th	Russian Federation	49.74%	0.1%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	49.19%	-0.4%
59th	Myanmar	48.65%	-1.1%
60th	Austria	46.78%	0.1%
61st	Zimbabwe	46.40%	-0.3%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.89%	0.0%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	45.39%	-0.2%
64th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
65th	Cameroon	44.36%	-0.3%
66th	Senegal	44.18%	-0.5%
67th	French Polynesia	43.03%	0.1%
68th	Dominican Republic	42.70%	0.5%
69th	Belarus	42.36%	0.4%
70th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
71st	Viet Nam	42.29%	1.2%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	41.46%	0.3%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.09%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.53%	0.2%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.85%	0.1%
77th	European Union	39.09%	0.3%
78th	Thailand	39.08%	0.5%
79th	Canada	38.74%	0.0%
80th	Sierra Leone	38.13%	-0.7%
81st	North Macedonia	38.07%	0.1%
82nd	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
83rd	Spain	36.90%	0.8%
84th	Central African Republic	36.33%	-0.1%
85th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
86th	Nicaragua	35.81%	-2.7%
87th	Portugal	35.54%	-0.2%
88th	Ghana	35.31%	-1.1%
89th	Guatemala	35.19%	-1.3%
90th	Mexico	34.51%	-0.2%
91st	Lithuania	34.38%	0.7%
92nd	Czechia	34.38%	0.1%
93rd	Luxembourg	34.38%	0.2%
94th	Croatia	34.25%	0.2%
95th	Bulgaria	34.09%	1.0%
96th	St. Lucia	34.09%	-0.1%
97th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
98th	United States	33.69%	0.2%
99th	Sri Lanka	33.65%	-0.3%
100th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
101st	Norway	33.14%	0.0%
102nd	Germany	32.71%	0.1%
103rd	Benin	32.68%	-1.3%
104th	Switzerland	31.15%	0.3%
105th	Serbia	30.73%	1.0%
106th	El Salvador	30.57%	-0.7%
107th	Poland	30.37%	0.3%
108th	Italy	30.31%	0.7%
109th	France	30.25%	0.7%
110th	Gambia, The	30.21%	-1.8%
111th	Greece	30.04%	0.8%
112th	Botswana	29.21%	-0.7%
113th	Malawi	28.68%	-1.5%
114th	Albania	28.50%	0.2%
115th	Romania	28.25%	0.2%
116th	Eswatini	28.15%	0.3%
117th	Türkiye	27.27%	0.4%
118th	Cuba	27.08%	1.8%
119th	Guinea	26.88%	-0.5%
120th	Nigeria	25.72%	-0.7%
121st	Singapore	25.24%	0.4%
122nd	Burkina Faso	24.73%	-0.7%
123rd	British Virgin Islands	24.29%	-0.1%
124th	India	23.31%	0.3%
125th	Philippines	23.10%	-0.7%
126th	Togo	22.83%	-0.2%
127th	Belgium	22.67%	0.3%
128th	Hungary	22.47%	-0.4%
129th	Chile	22.37%	0.5%
130th	Madagascar	21.68%	-0.4%
131st	China	21.12%	1.2%
132nd	Comoros	20.28%	-1.1%
133rd	Antigua and Barbuda	20.11%	-0.8%
134th	Mauritius	19.09%	-0.9%
135th	Cyprus	18.69%	0.1%
136th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
137th	Australia	16.89%	-0.2%
138th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.47%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	14.63%	0.3%
142nd	Bangladesh	14.53%	-0.2%
143rd	South Africa	14.39%	-0.2%
144th	Uganda	13.97%	-1.5%
145th	Haiti	13.74%	-0.1%
146th	Lebanon	13.43%	-0.1%
147th	Côte d'Ivoire	12.83%	-2.7%
148th	Morocco	12.68%	0.3%
149th	United Kingdom	12.60%	0.3%
150th	Azerbaijan	12.44%	0.4%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Armenia	11.62%	-0.1%
153rd	Moldova	11.29%	0.8%
154th	Argentina	11.16%	-1.0%
155th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
156th	Netherlands	11.03%	0.5%
157th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
158th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.88%	-1.1%
159th	Rwanda	10.83%	-0.8%
160th	Cabo Verde	10.53%	0.7%
161st	Ireland	10.33%	1.3%
162nd	Uruguay	9.69%	2.2%
163rd	Mongolia	9.11%	-0.1%
164th	Namibia	9.01%	-0.9%
165th	Eritrea	9.00%	-0.3%
166th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
167th	Uzbekistan	7.59%	1.2%
168th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
169th	Israel	7.11%	0.1%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.48%	1.3%
171st	Kenya	6.41%	-0.9%
172nd	Kyrgyz Republic	6.39%	0.4%
173rd	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
174th	Pakistan	5.36%	-1.0%
175th	Channel Islands	5.06%	1.9%
176th	Chad	4.46%	-1.4%
177th	United Arab Emirates	4.46%	0.2%
178th	Tunisia	4.41%	0.3%
179th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
180th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
181st	Syrian Arab Republic	2.65%	1.2%
182nd	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
183rd	Iraq	1.90%	0.8%
184th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
185th	West Bank and Gaza	1.64%	0.9%
186th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
187th	Kazakhstan	1.14%	-0.2%
188th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
189th	Jordan	1.10%	-0.6%
190th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
191st	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
192nd	Niger	0.96%	-1.0%
193rd	Algeria	0.79%	1.8%
194th	Bahrain	0.66%	3.1%
195th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
196th	Iceland	0.43%	3.6%
197th	Mauritania	0.36%	-1.4%
198th	Kuwait	0.34%	2.3%
199th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
200th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
201st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.07%	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 Ghana's forest area in 2009?▾

Ghana's forest area in 2009 was 35.31%. This ranked 88th globally.

How did Ghana's forest area change in 2009?▾

Ghana's forest area decreased by 1.1% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2009?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2009 at 95.35%.

What is the forest area of Ghana in 2009?▾

The forest area of Ghana in 2009 was 35.31%. This ranked 88th globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for Ghana's forest area?▾

Ghana's forest area went from 35.70% in 2008 to 35.31% in 2009, a 1.1% decrease.

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