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Korea - Forest Area 2018

Name: Korea Forest Area 2018
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

64.67% −0.11% from 2017 Global rank: 20th

Korea's forest area was 64.67% in 2018, decreased +0.11% from 64.78% in 2017. This was the 20th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Forest Area by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	94.83%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	93.64%	0.0%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.94%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.41%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.19%	0.0%
6th	Palau	89.67%	0.2%
7th	Equatorial Guinea	87.88%	-0.3%
8th	American Samoa	85.95%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	79.71%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.32%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.73%	0.0%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	72.20%	-0.2%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
16th	Bhutan	71.35%	0.1%
17th	Guinea-Bissau	71.01%	-0.4%
18th	Sweden	68.69%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.41%	0.0%
20th	Korea	64.67%	-0.2%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.35%	-0.1%
22nd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
23rd	Timor-Leste	62.13%	-0.2%
24th	Slovenia	61.67%	-0.2%
25th	Fiji	61.67%	0.6%
26th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
27th	Zambia	60.79%	-0.4%
28th	Brazil	59.71%	-0.2%
29th	Costa Rica	58.80%	0.5%
30th	Samoa	58.50%	-0.3%
31st	Malaysia	58.48%	-0.3%
32nd	Honduras	57.21%	-0.3%
33rd	Panama	57.11%	-0.3%
34th	Estonia	57.04%	0.0%
35th	Belize	56.96%	-0.9%
36th	Peru	56.78%	-0.2%
37th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	56.62%	-0.9%
38th	Virgin Islands (US)	56.03%	0.8%
39th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.85%	0.1%
40th	São Tomé and Principe	55.35%	-1.2%
41st	Latvia	54.69%	0.1%
42nd	Jamaica	54.40%	0.7%
43rd	Angola	54.32%	-0.8%
44th	Colombia	53.66%	-0.3%
45th	Cayman Islands	53.38%	0.7%
46th	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	0.0%
47th	Tanzania	52.70%	-1.0%
48th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
49th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
50th	Guam	51.85%	0.0%
51st	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
52nd	Ecuador	50.84%	-0.5%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	50.44%	-0.3%
54th	Russian Federation	49.78%	0.0%
55th	Indonesia	49.72%	-0.6%
56th	Cambodia	47.47%	-1.8%
57th	Mozambique	47.34%	-0.5%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	47.31%	-0.5%
59th	Austria	47.16%	0.1%
60th	Viet Nam	46.23%	0.5%
61st	New Caledonia	45.85%	0.0%
62nd	Zimbabwe	45.33%	-0.3%
63rd	Trinidad and Tobago	44.65%	-0.2%
64th	Myanmar	44.62%	-1.0%
65th	Dominican Republic	44.05%	0.4%
66th	Cameroon	43.27%	-0.3%
67th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
68th	Belarus	43.05%	0.2%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.73%	0.0%
70th	Senegal	42.32%	-0.5%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
72nd	Paraguay	41.94%	-1.6%
73rd	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.0%
74th	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	40.06%	0.0%
77th	European Union	39.75%	0.1%
78th	North Macedonia	39.71%	0.0%
79th	Thailand	39.04%	-0.2%
80th	Canada	38.70%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.43%	0.0%
82nd	Spain	37.16%	0.0%
83rd	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
84th	Portugal	36.15%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	35.90%	-0.1%
86th	Sierra Leone	35.67%	-0.8%
87th	Bulgaria	35.62%	0.3%
88th	Lithuania	35.10%	0.1%
89th	Ghana	35.03%	0.1%
90th	Czechia	34.63%	0.1%
91st	Croatia	34.56%	0.1%
92nd	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
93rd	Sri Lanka	34.26%	-0.1%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Mexico	33.92%	-0.2%
97th	United States	33.87%	0.0%
98th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
99th	Norway	33.32%	0.1%
100th	Guatemala	33.14%	-0.3%
101st	Germany	32.68%	0.0%
102nd	Italy	31.98%	0.6%
103rd	Switzerland	31.95%	0.3%
104th	France	31.70%	0.5%
105th	Cuba	31.23%	0.0%
106th	Serbia	31.12%	0.0%
107th	Poland	30.89%	0.1%
108th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
109th	Romania	30.12%	0.0%
110th	Nicaragua	29.98%	-2.7%
111th	Albania	28.79%	0.0%
112th	Eswatini	28.79%	0.2%
113th	Benin	28.69%	-1.5%
114th	El Salvador	28.61%	-0.8%
115th	Türkiye	28.47%	0.7%
116th	Botswana	27.33%	-0.8%
117th	Guinea	25.51%	-0.6%
118th	Gambia, The	25.11%	-2.2%
119th	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
120th	Malawi	24.67%	-1.8%
121st	Chile	24.20%	0.7%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	0.0%
123rd	Nigeria	24.10%	-0.7%
124th	India	24.09%	0.4%
125th	Philippines	23.88%	0.5%
126th	Burkina Faso	23.09%	-0.8%
127th	China	23.03%	0.9%
128th	Belgium	22.61%	-0.5%
129th	Hungary	22.53%	-0.1%
130th	Togo	22.34%	-0.2%
131st	Singapore	22.31%	-1.4%
132nd	Madagascar	21.41%	-0.1%
133rd	Mauritius	19.37%	0.1%
134th	Antigua and Barbuda	18.75%	-0.8%
135th	Cyprus	18.68%	0.0%
136th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
137th	Comoros	18.16%	-1.3%
138th	Australia	17.42%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.70%	0.1%
140th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	15.66%	0.2%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.47%	0.0%
144th	South Africa	14.12%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.89%	0.4%
146th	Azerbaijan	13.41%	1.1%
147th	United Kingdom	13.12%	0.3%
148th	Haiti	12.83%	-0.9%
149th	Morocco	12.82%	0.2%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Uganda	12.07%	-1.7%
152nd	Moldova	11.75%	0.0%
153rd	Armenia	11.55%	-0.1%
154th	Uruguay	11.36%	1.1%
155th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
156th	Ireland	11.24%	0.5%
157th	Cabo Verde	11.20%	0.7%
158th	Rwanda	11.11%	0.4%
159th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
160th	Netherlands	10.92%	0.3%
161st	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
162nd	Burundi	10.89%	0.0%
163rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
164th	Argentina	10.52%	-0.4%
165th	Sudan	10.01%	-0.9%
166th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9.78%	-1.2%
167th	Côte d'Ivoire	9.63%	-3.6%
168th	Mongolia	9.10%	0.0%
169th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
170th	Eritrea	8.77%	-0.3%
171st	Uzbekistan	8.26%	0.7%
172nd	Namibia	8.24%	-1.0%
173rd	Kyrgyz Republic	6.67%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.61%	0.1%
175th	Israel	6.47%	0.0%
176th	Kenya	6.26%	0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	4.94%	-1.1%
180th	Tunisia	4.50%	0.2%
181st	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
182nd	Chad	3.60%	-2.5%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.04%	0.0%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.84%	0.0%
185th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
186th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
187th	Iraq	1.90%	0.0%
188th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
189th	West Bank and Gaza	1.68%	0.0%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Malta	1.44%	9.5%
192nd	Kazakhstan	1.26%	0.9%
193rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
194th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.87%	-1.1%
197th	Bahrain	0.85%	3.4%
198th	Algeria	0.81%	-0.7%
199th	Iceland	0.50%	0.8%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.31%	-1.7%
203rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.5%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	0.0%
208th	Oman	0.01%	-3.7%
209th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
211th	Monaco	0.00%	-
212th	Nauru	0.00%	-
213th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Korea's forest area in 2018?▾

Korea's forest area in 2018 was 64.67%. This ranked 20th globally.

How did Korea's forest area change in 2018?▾

Korea's forest area decreased by 0.2% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2018?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2018 at 94.83%.

What is the forest area of Korea in 2018?▾

The forest area of Korea in 2018 was 64.67%. This ranked 20th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for Korea's forest area?▾

Korea's forest area went from 64.78% in 2017 to 64.67% in 2018, a 0.2% decrease.

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