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Sierra Leone - Forest Area 1992

Name: Sierra Leone Forest Area 1992
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

42.77% −0.27% from 1991 Global rank: 68th

Sierra Leone's forest area was 42.77% in 1992, decreased +0.27% from 43.04% in 1991. This was the 68th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1992▾

Forest Area by Country - 1992
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.76%	0.0%
2nd	Equatorial Guinea	95.63%	-0.3%
3rd	Guyana	94.46%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.17%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	90.91%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.87%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	90.01%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	87.88%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	83.56%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.32%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	78.82%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	77.76%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.95%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Northern Mariana Islands	72.35%	-0.5%
16th	Finland	72.19%	0.3%
17th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.13%	0.4%
18th	Brazil	69.55%	-0.6%
19th	Sweden	68.94%	0.0%
20th	Belize	68.91%	-0.9%
21st	Japan	68.39%	0.0%
22nd	Virgin Islands (US)	67.79%	-1.7%
23rd	Korea	67.76%	-0.1%
24th	Dominica	66.43%	-0.5%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	65.85%	-0.4%
26th	Congo, Republic of	65.27%	-0.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.58%	-0.1%
28th	Tanzania	63.95%	-0.7%
29th	Zambia	63.68%	-0.1%
30th	Indonesia	63.53%	-1.5%
31st	Angola	63.33%	-0.2%
32nd	Paraguay	63.01%	-1.0%
33rd	Malaysia	62.19%	-0.5%
34th	Cambodia	62.09%	-0.2%
35th	Honduras	62.08%	-0.3%
36th	Samoa	61.90%	-0.3%
37th	Panama	61.53%	-0.4%
38th	São Tomé and Principe	61.01%	0.0%
39th	Peru	59.55%	-0.2%
40th	Slovenia	59.43%	-
41st	Myanmar	58.68%	-1.1%
42nd	Colombia	58.15%	-0.3%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.74%	-0.2%
44th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.64%	-0.7%
45th	Mozambique	54.60%	-0.5%
46th	Cayman Islands	54.54%	-0.2%
47th	Bhutan	54.08%	0.4%
48th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	52.86%	-0.5%
49th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
50th	Ecuador	52.20%	-0.6%
51st	Estonia	52.19%	-
52nd	Fiji	52.16%	0.7%
53rd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
54th	Nicaragua	51.52%	-1.6%
55th	Latvia	51.21%	-
56th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
57th	Russian Federation	49.36%	-
58th	Zimbabwe	48.43%	-0.2%
59th	Jamaica	48.13%	0.0%
60th	Senegal	47.85%	-0.5%
61st	Cameroon	47.22%	-0.4%
62nd	Trinidad and Tobago	46.97%	-0.2%
63rd	Austria	45.91%	0.2%
64th	New Caledonia	45.54%	0.1%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	Guatemala	43.55%	-1.2%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.78%	-
68th	Sierra Leone	42.77%	-0.6%
69th	Ghana	42.67%	-1.1%
70th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
71st	Benin	41.64%	-1.5%
72nd	Liechtenstein	40.88%	0.3%
73rd	Gambia, The	39.84%	-1.4%
74th	Nepal	39.82%	0.2%
75th	French Polynesia	39.69%	0.3%
76th	Georgia	39.63%	-
77th	Canada	38.84%	0.0%
78th	Belarus	38.82%	-
79th	Puerto Rico (US)	38.57%	3.3%
80th	Thailand	37.75%	-0.2%
81st	Central African Republic	37.15%	-0.1%
82nd	Sri Lanka	36.89%	-0.8%
83rd	Portugal	36.89%	-0.3%
84th	European Union	36.81%	1.6%
85th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
86th	Malawi	36.25%	-1.2%
87th	North Macedonia	36.22%	-
88th	Mexico	36.09%	-0.3%
89th	New Zealand	35.96%	0.5%
90th	St. Lucia	34.78%	-0.1%
91st	Dominican Republic	34.58%	2.3%
92nd	El Salvador	34.26%	-0.6%
93rd	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
94th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
95th	Croatia	33.21%	-
96th	Norway	33.21%	0.0%
97th	United States	33.05%	0.0%
98th	Botswana	32.76%	-0.6%
99th	Germany	32.40%	0.0%
100th	Lithuania	31.27%	-
101st	Viet Nam	30.29%	2.5%
102nd	Bulgaria	30.16%	0.1%
103rd	Switzerland	29.40%	0.4%
104th	Guinea	29.33%	-0.5%
105th	Spain	29.12%	2.2%
106th	Poland	29.11%	0.2%
107th	Nigeria	28.77%	-0.6%
108th	Albania	28.65%	-0.2%
109th	Burkina Faso	27.84%	-0.7%
110th	Romania	27.76%	0.0%
111th	France	27.10%	0.6%
112th	Eswatini	26.95%	0.3%
113th	Italy	26.34%	1.0%
114th	Greece	26.06%	0.9%
115th	Türkiye	25.80%	0.2%
116th	Philippines	25.77%	-0.6%
117th	Togo	24.69%	-0.7%
118th	British Virgin Islands	24.68%	-0.1%
119th	Comoros	24.28%	-1.0%
120th	Madagascar	23.32%	-0.5%
121st	Côte d'Ivoire	22.95%	-3.6%
122nd	Singapore	22.78%	1.5%
123rd	Antigua and Barbuda	22.68%	-0.7%
124th	India	21.75%	0.6%
125th	Chile	20.66%	0.4%
126th	Hungary	20.42%	0.6%
127th	Mauritius	20.32%	0.2%
128th	Cuba	19.86%	1.8%
129th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
130th	Cyprus	17.66%	0.6%
131st	Uganda	17.48%	-1.2%
132nd	Australia	17.37%	-0.2%
133rd	China	17.16%	1.2%
134th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
135th	Ukraine	16.09%	-
136th	South Africa	14.90%	-0.2%
137th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
138th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
139th	Haiti	13.88%	-0.1%
140th	Lebanon	13.63%	-0.1%
141st	Denmark	13.49%	0.8%
142nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.96%	-0.9%
143rd	Argentina	12.73%	-0.5%
144th	Rwanda	12.61%	-1.0%
145th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
146th	Morocco	12.30%	0.0%
147th	Armenia	11.74%	-
148th	United Kingdom	11.63%	0.6%
149th	Azerbaijan	11.45%	-
150th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
151st	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
152nd	Namibia	10.48%	-0.8%
153rd	Netherlands	10.31%	0.4%
154th	Burundi	10.12%	-3.1%
155th	Moldova	10.02%	-
156th	Mongolia	9.26%	-0.1%
157th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	-
158th	Ireland	7.19%	3.5%
159th	Kenya	6.82%	0.3%
160th	Pakistan	6.35%	-1.0%
161st	Israel	6.29%	1.6%
162nd	Uzbekistan	6.19%	-
163rd	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
164th	Kyrgyz Republic	5.97%	-
165th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.60%	0.3%
166th	Chad	5.28%	-0.6%
167th	Uruguay	5.21%	6.7%
168th	Cabo Verde	5.02%	13.7%
169th	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
170th	Tunisia	4.18%	0.4%
171st	United Arab Emirates	3.63%	2.6%
172nd	Tajikistan	2.92%	-
173rd	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
174th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
175th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.09%	1.6%
176th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
177th	Iraq	1.84%	0.2%
178th	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
179th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
180th	Niger	1.44%	-3.3%
181st	Kazakhstan	1.17%	-
182nd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
183rd	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
184th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
185th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
186th	Algeria	0.69%	-0.5%
187th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
188th	Mauritania	0.45%	-1.2%
189th	Bahrain	0.35%	3.4%
190th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
191st	Kuwait	0.21%	3.9%
192nd	Iceland	0.20%	7.0%
193rd	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
194th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
195th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.4%
196th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
197th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
198th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
199th	Monaco	0.00%	-
200th	Nauru	0.00%	-
201st	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Sierra Leone's forest area in 1992?▾

Sierra Leone's forest area in 1992 was 42.77%. This ranked 68th globally.

How did Sierra Leone's forest area change in 1992?▾

Sierra Leone's forest area decreased by 0.6% in 1992 compared to 1991.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1992?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1992 at 95.76%.

What is the forest area of Sierra Leone in 1992?▾

The forest area of Sierra Leone in 1992 was 42.77%. This ranked 68th globally.

How does 1992 compare to 1991 for Sierra Leone's forest area?▾

Sierra Leone's forest area went from 43.04% in 1991 to 42.77% in 1992, a 0.6% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Sierra Leone matched the Orthodox Tightening Cycle pattern in 1992. Historically: 311 occurrences, 177 successful (57%). Outcome 24 months later: 24.2%. View full analysis →

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