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Papua New Guinea - Forest Area 2013

Name: Papua New Guinea Forest Area 2013
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

79.69% −0.07% from 2012 Global rank: 10th

Papua New Guinea's forest area was 79.69% in 2013, decreased +0.07% from 79.75% in 2012. This was the 10th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2013▾

Forest Area by Country - 2013
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.14%	-0.1%
2nd	Guyana	93.90%	-0.1%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.73%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.64%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.32%	0.0%
6th	Equatorial Guinea	89.37%	-0.3%
7th	Palau	88.73%	0.2%
8th	American Samoa	86.70%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	81.28%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.69%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.52%	0.1%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	72.95%	-0.2%
15th	Guinea-Bissau	72.51%	-0.4%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	71.13%	0.1%
18th	Sweden	68.78%	-0.1%
19th	Japan	68.46%	0.0%
20th	Korea	65.25%	-0.3%
21st	Northern Mariana Islands	64.83%	-0.6%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.54%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Timor-Leste	62.60%	-0.2%
25th	Zambia	62.06%	-0.4%
26th	Slovenia	61.95%	0.0%
27th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
28th	Brazil	60.66%	-0.3%
29th	Fiji	59.84%	0.6%
30th	Belize	59.46%	-0.9%
31st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	59.05%	-0.8%
32nd	Malaysia	58.61%	0.5%
33rd	São Tomé and Principe	58.58%	-1.1%
34th	Samoa	58.32%	-0.3%
35th	Honduras	58.17%	-0.3%
36th	Panama	57.76%	-0.3%
37th	Peru	57.45%	-0.2%
38th	Costa Rica	57.19%	0.6%
39th	Angola	56.54%	-0.8%
40th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.57%	0.1%
41st	Tanzania	55.13%	-0.8%
42nd	Estonia	54.91%	-1.8%
43rd	Colombia	54.44%	-0.2%
44th	Latvia	54.38%	0.1%
45th	Cambodia	54.07%	-3.5%
46th	Virgin Islands (US)	53.91%	0.8%
47th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
48th	Jamaica	52.62%	0.7%
49th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
50th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
51st	Ecuador	51.95%	-0.3%
52nd	Indonesia	51.60%	-0.9%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.31%	-0.3%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Russian Federation	49.77%	0.0%
56th	Mozambique	48.77%	-0.5%
57th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	48.42%	-0.4%
58th	Austria	46.95%	0.1%
59th	Myanmar	46.81%	-0.9%
60th	Paraguay	46.13%	-2.2%
61st	Zimbabwe	45.93%	-0.3%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.88%	0.0%
63rd	Guam	45.56%	0.8%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	45.06%	-0.2%
65th	Viet Nam	44.06%	1.1%
66th	Cameroon	43.86%	-0.3%
67th	Senegal	43.36%	-0.5%
68th	Dominican Republic	43.29%	0.3%
69th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
70th	Belarus	42.54%	0.0%
71st	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
73rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.75%	0.5%
74th	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.93%	0.0%
77th	European Union	39.43%	0.2%
78th	Thailand	39.28%	0.0%
79th	North Macedonia	38.89%	0.7%
80th	Canada	38.73%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.40%	0.0%
82nd	Spain	37.08%	0.0%
83rd	Sierra Leone	37.03%	-0.7%
84th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	36.14%	-0.1%
86th	Portugal	35.89%	0.3%
87th	Bulgaria	34.95%	0.5%
88th	Lithuania	34.79%	0.2%
89th	Ghana	34.74%	-0.2%
90th	Czechia	34.50%	0.1%
91st	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
92nd	Croatia	34.33%	0.0%
93rd	Mexico	34.25%	-0.2%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Guatemala	33.97%	-0.7%
97th	United States	33.84%	0.1%
98th	Sri Lanka	33.79%	0.2%
99th	Nicaragua	33.40%	-1.4%
100th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
101st	Norway	33.21%	0.1%
102nd	Germany	32.72%	-0.1%
103rd	Switzerland	31.51%	0.3%
104th	Italy	31.08%	0.6%
105th	Serbia	31.06%	0.0%
106th	France	30.93%	0.5%
107th	Benin	30.91%	-1.4%
108th	Poland	30.64%	0.2%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	El Salvador	29.70%	-0.7%
111th	Cuba	29.58%	4.0%
112th	Romania	29.33%	1.2%
113th	Albania	28.70%	0.2%
114th	Eswatini	28.43%	0.2%
115th	Botswana	28.38%	-0.7%
116th	Gambia, The	27.95%	-2.0%
117th	Türkiye	27.82%	0.5%
118th	Malawi	26.90%	-1.6%
119th	Guinea	26.29%	-0.6%
120th	Nigeria	25.00%	-0.7%
121st	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.19%	-0.1%
123rd	Singapore	24.02%	-1.6%
124th	Burkina Faso	24.00%	-0.8%
125th	India	23.64%	0.4%
126th	Philippines	23.29%	0.5%
127th	Chile	23.20%	1.0%
128th	Belgium	22.73%	0.0%
129th	Hungary	22.70%	0.1%
130th	Togo	22.61%	-0.2%
131st	China	21.99%	0.9%
132nd	Madagascar	21.52%	-0.1%
133rd	Antigua and Barbuda	19.50%	-0.8%
134th	Comoros	19.34%	-1.2%
135th	Mauritius	19.20%	0.0%
136th	Cyprus	18.70%	0.0%
137th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
138th	Australia	17.14%	0.5%
139th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
140th	Ukraine	16.59%	0.2%
141st	Denmark	15.24%	1.3%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.48%	-0.1%
144th	South Africa	14.27%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.60%	0.4%
146th	Haiti	13.39%	-0.8%
147th	Uganda	13.10%	-1.5%
148th	United Kingdom	12.88%	0.6%
149th	Azerbaijan	12.82%	0.9%
150th	Morocco	12.73%	0.0%
151st	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
152nd	Moldova	11.61%	0.6%
153rd	Armenia	11.59%	-0.1%
154th	Côte d'Ivoire	11.41%	-3.0%
155th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
156th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.93%	-0.4%
158th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
159th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
160th	Rwanda	10.86%	0.4%
161st	Cabo Verde	10.82%	0.7%
162nd	Argentina	10.80%	-0.8%
163rd	Ireland	10.76%	0.9%
164th	Uruguay	10.54%	2.1%
165th	Sudan	10.47%	-0.9%
166th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	10.39%	-1.2%
167th	Burundi	9.55%	7.5%
168th	Mongolia	9.11%	0.0%
169th	Eritrea	8.90%	-0.3%
170th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
171st	Namibia	8.67%	-1.0%
172nd	Uzbekistan	7.96%	1.2%
173rd	Israel	7.42%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.56%	0.0%
175th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.48%	0.4%
176th	Kenya	6.26%	-0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Pakistan	5.19%	-0.8%
179th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
180th	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
181st	Tunisia	4.45%	0.2%
182nd	Chad	4.09%	-2.4%
183rd	Tajikistan	2.98%	0.6%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.78%	1.2%
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	1.67%	0.4%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Kazakhstan	1.19%	1.4%
192nd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
193rd	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
194th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.92%	-1.1%
197th	Algeria	0.81%	0.4%
198th	Bahrain	0.74%	2.9%
199th	Iceland	0.47%	1.5%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.34%	-1.5%
203rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	-5.9%
208th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
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 Papua New Guinea's forest area in 2013?▾

Papua New Guinea's forest area in 2013 was 79.69%. This ranked 10th globally.

How did Papua New Guinea's forest area change in 2013?▾

Papua New Guinea's forest area decreased by 0.1% in 2013 compared to 2012.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2013?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2013 at 95.14%.

What is the forest area of Papua New Guinea in 2013?▾

The forest area of Papua New Guinea in 2013 was 79.69%. This ranked 10th globally.

How does 2013 compare to 2012 for Papua New Guinea's forest area?▾

Papua New Guinea's forest area went from 79.75% in 2012 to 79.69% in 2013, a 0.1% decrease.

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