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Korea - Forest Area 1993

Name: Korea Forest Area 1993
Creator: World Bank
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

67.68% −0.08% from 1992 Global rank: 22nd

Korea's forest area was 67.68% in 1993, decreased +0.08% from 67.76% in 1992. This was the 22nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1993▾

Forest Area by Country - 1993
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.74%	0.0%
2nd	Equatorial Guinea	95.33%	-0.3%
3rd	Guyana	94.44%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.15%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	90.95%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.84%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	89.84%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	87.57%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	83.87%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.30%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	78.52%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	77.46%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.77%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Finland	72.38%	0.3%
16th	Northern Mariana Islands	71.99%	-0.5%
17th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.38%	0.4%
18th	Brazil	69.10%	-0.7%
19th	Sweden	68.97%	0.0%
20th	Japan	68.37%	0.0%
21st	Belize	68.30%	-0.9%
22nd	Korea	67.68%	-0.1%
23rd	Virgin Islands (US)	66.63%	-1.7%
24th	Dominica	66.10%	-0.5%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	65.55%	-0.5%
26th	Congo, Republic of	65.24%	-0.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.49%	-0.1%
28th	Zambia	63.63%	-0.1%
29th	Tanzania	63.53%	-0.7%
30th	Angola	63.20%	-0.2%
31st	Indonesia	62.58%	-1.5%
32nd	Paraguay	62.37%	-1.0%
33rd	Cambodia	61.96%	-0.2%
34th	Malaysia	61.91%	-0.5%
35th	Honduras	61.89%	-0.3%
36th	Samoa	61.73%	-0.3%
37th	Panama	61.31%	-0.4%
38th	São Tomé and Principe	60.98%	0.0%
39th	Slovenia	59.66%	0.4%
40th	Peru	59.46%	-0.2%
41st	Myanmar	58.01%	-1.1%
42nd	Colombia	57.95%	-0.3%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.65%	-0.2%
44th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.26%	-0.7%
45th	Cayman Islands	54.46%	-0.2%
46th	Mozambique	54.33%	-0.5%
47th	Bhutan	54.29%	0.4%
48th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	52.61%	-0.5%
49th	Fiji	52.53%	0.7%
50th	Estonia	52.27%	0.1%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Ecuador	51.88%	-0.6%
54th	Latvia	51.32%	0.2%
55th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
56th	Nicaragua	50.68%	-1.6%
57th	Russian Federation	49.37%	0.0%
58th	Zimbabwe	48.31%	-0.2%
59th	Jamaica	48.13%	0.0%
60th	Senegal	47.62%	-0.5%
61st	Cameroon	47.03%	-0.4%
62nd	Trinidad and Tobago	46.87%	-0.2%
63rd	Austria	45.98%	0.2%
64th	New Caledonia	45.58%	0.1%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	Guatemala	43.02%	-1.2%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.59%	-0.4%
68th	Sierra Leone	42.50%	-0.6%
69th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
70th	Ghana	42.20%	-1.1%
71st	Benin	41.02%	-1.5%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.00%	0.3%
73rd	Nepal	39.89%	0.2%
74th	French Polynesia	39.80%	0.3%
75th	Puerto Rico (US)	39.79%	3.2%
76th	Georgia	39.64%	0.0%
77th	Slovak Republic	39.55%	-
78th	Gambia, The	39.27%	-1.4%
79th	Belarus	39.07%	0.6%
80th	Canada	38.83%	0.0%
81st	Thailand	37.68%	-0.2%
82nd	Central African Republic	37.10%	-0.1%
83rd	European Union	36.95%	0.4%
84th	Portugal	36.76%	-0.3%
85th	Sri Lanka	36.60%	-0.8%
86th	North Macedonia	36.40%	0.5%
87th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
88th	New Zealand	36.14%	0.5%
89th	Mexico	35.97%	-0.3%
90th	Malawi	35.81%	-1.2%
91st	Dominican Republic	35.36%	2.3%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.74%	-0.1%
93rd	Czechia	34.06%	-
94th	El Salvador	34.04%	-0.6%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
97th	Croatia	33.28%	0.2%
98th	Norway	33.20%	0.0%
99th	United States	33.06%	0.0%
100th	Botswana	32.55%	-0.6%
101st	Germany	32.41%	0.1%
102nd	Lithuania	31.39%	0.4%
103rd	Viet Nam	31.03%	2.4%
104th	Bulgaria	30.20%	0.1%
105th	Spain	29.76%	2.2%
106th	Switzerland	29.50%	0.4%
107th	Guinea	29.19%	-0.5%
108th	Poland	29.17%	0.2%
109th	Nigeria	28.59%	-0.6%
110th	Albania	28.57%	-0.2%
111th	Romania	27.76%	0.0%
112th	Burkina Faso	27.66%	-0.7%
113th	France	27.26%	0.6%
114th	Eswatini	27.02%	0.3%
115th	Italy	26.60%	1.0%
116th	Greece	26.29%	0.9%
117th	Türkiye	25.85%	0.2%
118th	Philippines	25.62%	-0.6%
119th	British Virgin Islands	24.65%	-0.1%
120th	Togo	24.52%	-0.7%
121st	Comoros	24.04%	-1.0%
122nd	Madagascar	23.20%	-0.5%
123rd	Singapore	23.11%	1.4%
124th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.53%	-0.7%
125th	Côte d'Ivoire	22.09%	-3.8%
126th	India	21.87%	0.6%
127th	Chile	20.74%	0.4%
128th	Hungary	20.54%	0.6%
129th	Mauritius	20.36%	0.2%
130th	Cuba	20.22%	1.8%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	17.78%	0.6%
133rd	China	17.37%	1.2%
134th	Australia	17.35%	-0.2%
135th	Uganda	17.27%	-1.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.13%	0.3%
138th	South Africa	14.87%	-0.2%
139th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Haiti	13.87%	-0.1%
142nd	Lebanon	13.61%	-0.1%
143rd	Denmark	13.59%	0.7%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.84%	-0.9%
145th	Argentina	12.66%	-0.5%
146th	Rwanda	12.48%	-1.0%
147th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
148th	Morocco	12.30%	0.0%
149th	Armenia	11.74%	-0.1%
150th	United Kingdom	11.70%	0.6%
151st	Azerbaijan	11.51%	0.4%
152nd	Eritrea	11.29%	-
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Namibia	10.39%	-0.8%
156th	Netherlands	10.35%	0.4%
157th	Moldova	10.05%	0.3%
158th	Burundi	9.80%	-3.2%
159th	Mongolia	9.26%	-0.1%
160th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
161st	Ireland	7.44%	3.4%
162nd	Kenya	6.83%	0.3%
163rd	Israel	6.39%	1.5%
164th	Pakistan	6.28%	-1.0%
165th	Uzbekistan	6.28%	1.6%
166th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
167th	Kyrgyz Republic	5.99%	0.4%
168th	Cabo Verde	5.63%	12.0%
169th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.62%	0.3%
170th	Uruguay	5.54%	6.3%
171st	Chad	5.25%	-0.6%
172nd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
173rd	Tunisia	4.19%	0.4%
174th	United Arab Emirates	3.72%	2.5%
175th	Tajikistan	2.92%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.12%	1.6%
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	1.39%	-3.4%
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	0.45%	-1.2%
192nd	Bahrain	0.37%	6.0%
193rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
194th	Kuwait	0.22%	3.8%
195th	Iceland	0.21%	6.5%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
198th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.3%
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 Korea's forest area in 1993?▾

Korea's forest area in 1993 was 67.68%. This ranked 22nd globally.

How did Korea's forest area change in 1993?▾

Korea's forest area decreased by 0.1% in 1993 compared to 1992.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1993?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1993 at 95.74%.

What is the forest area of Korea in 1993?▾

The forest area of Korea in 1993 was 67.68%. This ranked 22nd globally.

How does 1993 compare to 1992 for Korea's forest area?▾

Korea's forest area went from 67.76% in 1992 to 67.68% in 1993, a 0.1% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Korea matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 1993. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 9.7%. View full analysis →

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