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Singapore - Forest Area 1999

Name: Singapore Forest Area 1999
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

25.07% +0.33% from 1998 Global rank: 118th

Singapore's forest area was 25.07% in 1999, increased +0.33% from 24.74% in 1998. This was the 118th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1999▾

Forest Area by Country - 1999
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.60%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.33%	0.0%
3rd	Equatorial Guinea	93.54%	-0.3%
4th	Gabon	92.00%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.19%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.69%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	88.82%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	85.73%	0.4%
9th	Liberia	85.68%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.14%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	76.72%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	75.68%	-0.2%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	75.64%	-0.4%
14th	Finland	73.50%	0.3%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	72.92%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	69.84%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.11%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.27%	0.0%
20th	Korea	67.21%	-0.1%
21st	Brazil	66.39%	-0.7%
22nd	Bhutan	65.23%	0.4%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	65.03%	-0.1%
24th	Belize	64.59%	-0.9%
25th	Dominica	64.15%	-0.5%
26th	Timor-Leste	63.92%	-0.1%
27th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	63.77%	-0.5%
28th	Zambia	63.34%	-0.1%
29th	Angola	62.46%	-0.2%
30th	Cambodia	61.20%	-0.2%
31st	Tanzania	61.01%	-0.7%
32nd	Slovenia	61.00%	0.4%
33rd	São Tomé and Principe	60.82%	0.0%
34th	Honduras	60.77%	-0.3%
35th	Samoa	60.70%	-0.3%
36th	Malaysia	60.22%	-0.5%
37th	Panama	59.98%	-0.4%
38th	Virgin Islands (US)	59.65%	-1.9%
39th	Peru	58.92%	-0.2%
40th	Paraguay	58.51%	-1.1%
41st	Indonesia	56.86%	-1.6%
42nd	Colombia	56.74%	-0.4%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.06%	-0.2%
44th	Ecuador	55.65%	-0.6%
45th	Fiji	54.72%	0.7%
46th	Myanmar	54.02%	-1.2%
47th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	53.99%	-0.7%
48th	Cayman Islands	53.96%	-0.2%
49th	Estonia	52.74%	0.1%
50th	Mozambique	52.66%	-0.5%
51st	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Latvia	51.97%	0.2%
54th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.11%	-0.5%
55th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
56th	Russian Federation	49.38%	0.0%
57th	Jamaica	48.11%	0.0%
58th	Zimbabwe	47.59%	-0.2%
59th	Puerto Rico (US)	47.16%	2.7%
60th	Austria	46.44%	0.2%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.24%	-0.2%
62nd	Senegal	46.22%	-0.5%
63rd	Cameroon	45.88%	-0.4%
64th	New Caledonia	45.80%	0.1%
65th	Nicaragua	45.70%	-1.8%
66th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
68th	Liechtenstein	41.75%	0.3%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.44%	-0.5%
70th	Sierra Leone	40.86%	-0.7%
71st	Belarus	40.54%	0.6%
72nd	French Polynesia	40.47%	0.3%
73rd	Nepal	40.35%	0.2%
74th	Dominican Republic	40.05%	2.0%
75th	Guatemala	39.81%	-1.3%
76th	Georgia	39.71%	0.0%
77th	Slovak Republic	39.53%	0.0%
78th	Ghana	39.36%	-1.2%
79th	Canada	38.80%	0.0%
80th	European Union	37.95%	0.4%
81st	North Macedonia	37.48%	0.5%
82nd	Benin	37.29%	-1.6%
83rd	Thailand	37.26%	-0.2%
84th	New Zealand	37.23%	0.5%
85th	Central African Republic	36.81%	-0.1%
86th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
87th	Portugal	35.99%	-0.4%
88th	Gambia, The	35.88%	-1.6%
89th	Viet Nam	35.46%	2.1%
90th	Mexico	35.29%	-0.3%
91st	Sri Lanka	34.84%	-0.8%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.49%	-0.1%
93rd	Czechia	34.12%	0.0%
94th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
95th	Croatia	33.65%	0.2%
96th	Spain	33.59%	1.9%
97th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
98th	Norway	33.17%	0.0%
99th	Malawi	33.13%	-1.3%
100th	United States	33.13%	0.0%
101st	El Salvador	32.74%	-0.7%
102nd	Germany	32.52%	0.1%
103rd	Lithuania	32.11%	0.4%
104th	Botswana	31.30%	-0.7%
105th	Bulgaria	30.46%	0.1%
106th	Switzerland	30.16%	0.4%
107th	Poland	29.52%	0.2%
108th	Guinea	28.34%	-0.5%
109th	France	28.21%	0.6%
110th	Italy	28.19%	0.9%
111th	Albania	28.15%	-0.3%
112th	Romania	27.73%	0.0%
113th	Greece	27.70%	0.9%
114th	Nigeria	27.51%	-0.6%
115th	Eswatini	27.45%	0.3%
116th	Burkina Faso	26.56%	-0.7%
117th	Türkiye	26.13%	0.2%
118th	Singapore	25.07%	1.3%
119th	Philippines	24.67%	-0.6%
120th	British Virgin Islands	24.49%	-0.1%
121st	Togo	23.49%	-0.7%
122nd	Comoros	22.63%	-1.0%
123rd	India	22.61%	0.5%
124th	Madagascar	22.52%	-0.5%
125th	Cuba	22.32%	1.6%
126th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.63%	-0.7%
127th	Hungary	21.27%	0.6%
128th	Chile	21.20%	0.4%
129th	Mauritius	20.61%	0.2%
130th	China	18.64%	1.1%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	18.46%	0.6%
133rd	Australia	17.19%	-0.2%
134th	Côte d'Ivoire	16.89%	-4.9%
135th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
136th	Ukraine	16.37%	0.2%
137th	Uganda	16.04%	-1.3%
138th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
139th	South Africa	14.69%	-0.2%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	14.19%	0.7%
142nd	Haiti	13.82%	-0.1%
143rd	Lebanon	13.52%	-0.1%
144th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
145th	Morocco	12.33%	0.0%
146th	Argentina	12.26%	-0.5%
147th	United Kingdom	12.14%	0.6%
148th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.10%	-1.0%
149th	Azerbaijan	11.89%	0.9%
150th	Rwanda	11.76%	-1.0%
151st	Armenia	11.69%	-0.1%
152nd	Eritrea	11.11%	-0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Netherlands	10.61%	0.4%
156th	Moldova	10.41%	0.6%
157th	Namibia	9.88%	-0.9%
158th	Cabo Verde	9.25%	7.0%
159th	Mongolia	9.22%	-0.1%
160th	Ireland	8.91%	2.8%
161st	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
162nd	Burundi	7.87%	-3.9%
163rd	Uruguay	7.50%	4.6%
164th	Israel	6.97%	1.4%
165th	Kenya	6.94%	0.3%
166th	Uzbekistan	6.86%	1.4%
167th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.13%	0.4%
168th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
169th	Pakistan	5.91%	-1.0%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.71%	0.3%
171st	Chad	5.08%	-0.6%
172nd	Tunisia	4.28%	0.4%
173rd	United Arab Emirates	4.27%	2.2%
174th	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
175th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.32%	1.4%
179th	Iraq	1.87%	0.2%
180th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
181st	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
182nd	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
183rd	Kazakhstan	1.17%	0.0%
184th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
185th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
186th	Niger	1.10%	-4.3%
187th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
188th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
189th	Algeria	0.67%	-0.6%
190th	Bahrain	0.50%	4.4%
191st	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
192nd	Mauritania	0.41%	-1.3%
193rd	Iceland	0.28%	4.7%
194th	Kuwait	0.26%	3.1%
195th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	2.7%
198th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
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 Singapore's forest area in 1999?▾

Singapore's forest area in 1999 was 25.07%. This ranked 118th globally.

How did Singapore's forest area change in 1999?▾

Singapore's forest area increased by 1.3% in 1999 compared to 1998.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1999?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1999 at 95.60%.

What is the forest area of Singapore in 1999?▾

The forest area of Singapore in 1999 was 25.07%. This ranked 118th globally.

How does 1999 compare to 1998 for Singapore's forest area?▾

Singapore's forest area went from 24.74% in 1998 to 25.07% in 1999, a 1.3% increase.

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