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India - Forest Area 1997

Name: India Forest Area 1997
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

22.36% +0.12% from 1996 Global rank: 124th

India's forest area was 22.36% in 1997, increased +0.12% from 22.24% in 1996. This was the 124th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Forest Area by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.65%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.36%	0.0%
3rd	Equatorial Guinea	94.14%	-0.3%
4th	Gabon	92.05%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.11%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.74%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	89.16%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	86.31%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	85.11%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.19%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	77.32%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	76.24%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.04%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Finland	73.13%	0.3%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	72.41%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	70.55%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.07%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.31%	0.0%
20th	Korea	67.37%	-0.1%
21st	Brazil	67.29%	-0.7%
22nd	Belize	65.83%	-0.9%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	65.10%	-0.1%
24th	Dominica	64.80%	-0.5%
25th	Bhutan	64.73%	0.4%
26th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	64.36%	-0.5%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.11%	-0.1%
28th	Zambia	63.44%	-0.1%
29th	Angola	62.71%	-0.2%
30th	Virgin Islands (US)	61.97%	-1.8%
31st	Tanzania	61.85%	-0.7%
32nd	Cambodia	61.46%	-0.2%
33rd	Honduras	61.14%	-0.3%
34th	Samoa	61.04%	-0.3%
35th	São Tomé and Principe	60.87%	0.0%
36th	Malaysia	60.78%	-0.5%
37th	Slovenia	60.55%	0.4%
38th	Panama	60.42%	-0.4%
39th	Paraguay	59.80%	-1.1%
40th	Peru	59.10%	-0.2%
41st	Indonesia	58.77%	-1.6%
42nd	Colombia	57.14%	-0.3%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.25%	-0.2%
44th	Myanmar	55.35%	-1.2%
45th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	54.75%	-0.7%
46th	Cayman Islands	54.13%	-0.2%
47th	Fiji	53.99%	0.7%
48th	Mozambique	53.21%	-0.5%
49th	Estonia	52.58%	0.1%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Latvia	51.76%	0.2%
53rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.61%	-0.5%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Ecuador	50.57%	-0.6%
56th	Russian Federation	49.40%	0.0%
57th	Jamaica	48.11%	0.0%
58th	Zimbabwe	47.83%	-0.2%
59th	Nicaragua	47.36%	-1.7%
60th	Senegal	46.68%	-0.5%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.45%	-0.2%
62nd	Austria	46.28%	0.2%
63rd	Cameroon	46.26%	-0.4%
64th	New Caledonia	45.72%	0.1%
65th	Puerto Rico (US)	44.70%	2.8%
66th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
68th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.82%	-0.5%
69th	Liechtenstein	41.50%	0.3%
70th	Sierra Leone	41.40%	-0.7%
71st	Guatemala	40.88%	-1.3%
72nd	Ghana	40.31%	-1.2%
73rd	French Polynesia	40.25%	0.3%
74th	Nepal	40.20%	0.2%
75th	Belarus	40.05%	0.6%
76th	Georgia	39.69%	0.0%
77th	Slovak Republic	39.54%	0.0%
78th	Canada	38.81%	0.0%
79th	Benin	38.53%	-1.6%
80th	Dominican Republic	38.48%	2.1%
81st	European Union	37.62%	0.4%
82nd	Thailand	37.40%	-0.2%
83rd	North Macedonia	37.12%	0.5%
84th	Gambia, The	37.01%	-1.5%
85th	Central African Republic	36.91%	-0.1%
86th	New Zealand	36.87%	0.5%
87th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
88th	Portugal	36.24%	-0.4%
89th	Mexico	35.52%	-0.3%
90th	Sri Lanka	35.43%	-0.8%
91st	St. Lucia	34.57%	-0.1%
92nd	Czechia	34.10%	0.0%
93rd	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
94th	Malawi	34.02%	-1.3%
95th	Viet Nam	33.98%	2.2%
96th	Croatia	33.49%	0.2%
97th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
98th	Norway	33.18%	0.0%
99th	El Salvador	33.17%	-0.7%
100th	United States	33.11%	0.0%
101st	Germany	32.48%	0.1%
102nd	Spain	32.31%	2.0%
103rd	Lithuania	31.87%	0.4%
104th	Botswana	31.72%	-0.7%
105th	Bulgaria	30.38%	0.1%
106th	Switzerland	29.94%	0.4%
107th	Poland	29.40%	0.2%
108th	Guinea	28.62%	-0.5%
109th	Albania	28.29%	-0.3%
110th	France	27.89%	0.6%
111th	Nigeria	27.87%	-0.6%
112th	Romania	27.74%	0.0%
113th	Italy	27.66%	1.0%
114th	Eswatini	27.30%	0.3%
115th	Greece	27.23%	0.9%
116th	Burkina Faso	26.92%	-0.7%
117th	Türkiye	26.04%	0.2%
118th	Philippines	24.99%	-0.6%
119th	British Virgin Islands	24.55%	-0.1%
120th	Singapore	24.41%	1.4%
121st	Togo	23.84%	-0.7%
122nd	Comoros	23.10%	-1.0%
123rd	Madagascar	22.75%	-0.5%
124th	India	22.36%	0.6%
125th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.93%	-0.7%
126th	Cuba	21.62%	1.7%
127th	Chile	21.04%	0.4%
128th	Hungary	21.04%	0.6%
129th	Mauritius	20.53%	0.2%
130th	Côte d'Ivoire	18.62%	-4.4%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	18.23%	0.6%
133rd	China	18.22%	1.2%
134th	Australia	17.24%	-0.2%
135th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
136th	Uganda	16.45%	-1.2%
137th	Ukraine	16.29%	0.3%
138th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
139th	South Africa	14.75%	-0.2%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	13.99%	0.7%
142nd	Haiti	13.84%	-0.1%
143rd	Lebanon	13.55%	-0.1%
144th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
145th	Argentina	12.40%	-0.5%
146th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.35%	-1.0%
147th	Morocco	12.32%	0.0%
148th	Rwanda	12.00%	-1.0%
149th	United Kingdom	11.99%	0.6%
150th	Azerbaijan	11.71%	0.4%
151st	Armenia	11.71%	-0.1%
152nd	Eritrea	11.17%	-0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Netherlands	10.52%	0.4%
156th	Moldova	10.29%	0.6%
157th	Namibia	10.05%	-0.9%
158th	Mongolia	9.23%	-0.1%
159th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
160th	Burundi	8.52%	-3.6%
161st	Ireland	8.42%	3.0%
162nd	Cabo Verde	8.04%	8.1%
163rd	Kenya	6.91%	0.3%
164th	Uruguay	6.84%	5.0%
165th	Israel	6.78%	1.5%
166th	Uzbekistan	6.67%	1.5%
167th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.09%	0.4%
168th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
169th	Pakistan	6.04%	-1.0%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.68%	0.3%
171st	Chad	5.14%	-0.6%
172nd	Tunisia	4.25%	0.4%
173rd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	4.08%	2.3%
175th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.25%	1.5%
179th	Iraq	1.86%	0.2%
180th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
181st	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
182nd	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
183rd	Niger	1.19%	-3.9%
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	0.67%	-0.5%
190th	Bahrain	0.46%	4.8%
191st	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
192nd	Mauritania	0.42%	-1.2%
193rd	Iceland	0.26%	5.2%
194th	Kuwait	0.25%	3.3%
195th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
198th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	2.9%
199th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
200th	Greenland	0.00%	-16.7%
201st	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
202nd	Monaco	0.00%	-
203rd	Nauru	0.00%	-
204th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was India's forest area in 1997?▾

India's forest area in 1997 was 22.36%. This ranked 124th globally.

How did India's forest area change in 1997?▾

India's forest area increased by 0.6% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1997?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1997 at 95.65%.

What is the forest area of India in 1997?▾

The forest area of India in 1997 was 22.36%. This ranked 124th globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for India's forest area?▾

India's forest area went from 22.24% in 1996 to 22.36% in 1997, a 0.6% increase.

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