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South Africa - Forest Area 2021

Name: South Africa Forest Area 2021
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

14.03% −0.03% from 2020 Global rank: 145th

South Africa's forest area was 14.03% in 2021, decreased +0.03% from 14.06% in 2020. This was the 145th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2021▾

Forest Area by Country - 2021
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	94.60%	-0.1%
2nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	92.07%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.27%	-0.1%
4th	Palau	90.20%	0.2%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.11%	0.0%
6th	Guyana	87.18%	0.0%
7th	Equatorial Guinea	86.99%	-0.3%
8th	American Samoa	85.50%	-0.2%
9th	Papua New Guinea	79.10%	-0.1%
10th	Liberia	78.77%	-0.4%
11th	Finland	73.73%	0.0%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
15th	Lao PDR	71.75%	-0.2%
16th	Bhutan	71.50%	0.1%
17th	Guinea-Bissau	70.11%	-0.4%
18th	Sweden	68.70%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.41%	0.0%
20th	Korea	64.31%	-0.2%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.22%	-0.1%
22nd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
23rd	Fiji	62.76%	0.6%
24th	Timor-Leste	61.85%	-0.2%
25th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
26th	Slovenia	61.37%	-0.2%
27th	Zambia	60.03%	-0.4%
28th	Costa Rica	59.76%	0.5%
29th	Brazil	59.27%	-0.2%
30th	Malaysia	58.02%	-0.3%
31st	Samoa	57.98%	-0.3%
32nd	Virgin Islands (US)	57.31%	0.8%
33rd	Estonia	57.04%	0.0%
34th	Panama	56.65%	-0.3%
35th	Honduras	56.65%	-0.3%
36th	Peru	56.37%	-0.2%
37th	Puerto Rico (US)	56.01%	0.1%
38th	Belize	55.50%	-0.9%
39th	Jamaica	55.47%	0.7%
40th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	55.16%	-0.9%
41st	Latvia	54.87%	0.1%
42nd	São Tomé and Principe	53.42%	-1.2%
43rd	Colombia	53.13%	-0.3%
44th	Angola	52.98%	-0.8%
45th	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	0.0%
46th	Cayman Islands	52.75%	-0.5%
47th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
48th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
49th	Guam	51.85%	0.0%
50th	Tanzania	51.11%	-1.0%
51st	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
52nd	Ecuador	50.06%	-0.5%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	49.90%	-0.3%
54th	Russian Federation	49.78%	0.0%
55th	Indonesia	48.36%	-1.4%
56th	Austria	47.17%	0.1%
57th	Viet Nam	46.96%	0.5%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	46.73%	-0.4%
59th	Mozambique	46.41%	-0.7%
60th	New Caledonia	45.84%	0.0%
61st	Zimbabwe	44.97%	-0.3%
62nd	Cambodia	44.83%	-1.9%
63rd	Dominican Republic	44.65%	0.4%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	44.40%	-0.2%
65th	Myanmar	43.29%	-1.0%
66th	Belarus	43.27%	0.2%
67th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
68th	Cameroon	42.91%	-0.3%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.73%	0.0%
70th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
71st	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.0%
72nd	Senegal	41.70%	-0.5%
73rd	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
74th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
75th	Slovak Republic	40.06%	0.0%
76th	European Union	39.88%	0.1%
77th	Paraguay	39.83%	-1.7%
78th	North Macedonia	39.71%	0.0%
79th	Canada	39.47%	2.0%
80th	Thailand	38.83%	-0.2%
81st	New Zealand	37.63%	0.2%
82nd	Spain	37.17%	0.0%
83rd	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
84th	Portugal	36.15%	0.0%
85th	Bulgaria	35.98%	0.3%
86th	Central African Republic	35.75%	-0.1%
87th	Lithuania	35.18%	0.1%
88th	Ghana	35.13%	0.1%
89th	Sierra Leone	34.85%	-0.8%
90th	Czechia	34.71%	0.1%
91st	Croatia	34.70%	0.1%
92nd	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
93rd	Sri Lanka	34.11%	-0.1%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	United States	33.87%	0.0%
97th	Mexico	33.73%	-0.2%
98th	Norway	33.46%	0.1%
99th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
100th	Guatemala	32.81%	-0.3%
101st	Germany	32.68%	0.0%
102nd	Italy	32.53%	0.6%
103rd	Serbia	32.38%	0.0%
104th	Switzerland	32.21%	0.3%
105th	France	32.17%	0.5%
106th	Cuba	31.23%	0.0%
107th	Poland	31.02%	0.1%
108th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
109th	Romania	30.12%	0.0%
110th	Türkiye	29.07%	0.7%
111th	Eswatini	29.00%	0.2%
112th	Albania	28.79%	0.0%
113th	El Salvador	27.96%	-0.8%
114th	Nicaragua	27.48%	-2.9%
115th	Benin	27.36%	-1.6%
116th	Botswana	26.71%	-0.8%
117th	Guinea	25.02%	-0.6%
118th	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
119th	Chile	24.68%	0.7%
120th	India	24.36%	0.4%
121st	Philippines	24.23%	0.5%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	0.0%
123rd	China	23.63%	0.9%
124th	Nigeria	23.57%	-0.8%
125th	Gambia, The	23.41%	-2.4%
126th	Malawi	23.33%	-1.9%
127th	Belgium	22.60%	0.0%
128th	Burkina Faso	22.54%	-0.8%
129th	Hungary	22.48%	-0.1%
130th	Togo	22.18%	-0.2%
131st	Singapore	21.43%	-1.2%
132nd	Madagascar	21.34%	-0.1%
133rd	Mauritius	19.43%	0.1%
134th	Cyprus	18.67%	0.0%
135th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
136th	Antigua and Barbuda	18.30%	-0.8%
137th	Comoros	17.45%	-1.3%
138th	Australia	17.42%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.73%	0.1%
140th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	15.73%	0.1%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.47%	0.0%
144th	Lebanon	14.07%	0.4%
145th	South Africa	14.03%	-0.2%
146th	Azerbaijan	13.83%	1.0%
147th	United Kingdom	13.22%	0.3%
148th	Morocco	12.89%	0.2%
149th	Haiti	12.49%	-0.9%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Moldova	11.75%	0.0%
152nd	Uruguay	11.72%	1.0%
153rd	Armenia	11.64%	-0.1%
154th	Uganda	11.45%	-1.8%
155th	Cabo Verde	11.42%	0.7%
156th	Ireland	11.41%	0.5%
157th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
158th	Rwanda	11.23%	0.4%
159th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
160th	Netherlands	11.00%	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	10.40%	-0.4%
165th	Sudan	9.74%	-0.9%
166th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9.41%	-1.3%
167th	Mongolia	9.10%	0.0%
168th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
169th	Eritrea	8.68%	-0.4%
170th	Côte d'Ivoire	8.57%	-4.0%
171st	Uzbekistan	8.43%	0.7%
172nd	Namibia	7.98%	-1.1%
173rd	Kyrgyz Republic	6.95%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.64%	0.1%
175th	Israel	6.47%	0.0%
176th	Kenya	6.22%	0.0%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	4.78%	-1.1%
180th	Tunisia	4.53%	0.2%
181st	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
182nd	Chad	3.34%	-2.6%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.06%	0.2%
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%	-0.1%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Malta	1.44%	0.0%
192nd	Kazakhstan	1.29%	0.8%
193rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
194th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Bahrain	0.91%	2.2%
197th	Niger	0.84%	-1.2%
198th	Algeria	0.82%	0.5%
199th	Iceland	0.52%	1.3%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.30%	-1.7%
203rd	Djibouti	0.25%	1.3%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	-0.3%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	0.0%
208th	Oman	0.01%	-2.7%
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 South Africa's forest area in 2021?▾

South Africa's forest area in 2021 was 14.03%. This ranked 145th globally.

How did South Africa's forest area change in 2021?▾

South Africa's forest area decreased by 0.2% in 2021 compared to 2020.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2021?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2021 at 94.60%.

What is the forest area of South Africa in 2021?▾

The forest area of South Africa in 2021 was 14.03%. This ranked 145th globally.

How does 2021 compare to 2020 for South Africa's forest area?▾

South Africa's forest area went from 14.06% in 2020 to 14.03% in 2021, a 0.2% decrease.

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