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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 1991

Name: Sri Lanka Forest Area 1991
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

37.19% −0.29% from 1990 Global rank: 75th

Sri Lanka's forest area was 37.19% in 1991, decreased +0.29% from 37.48% in 1990. This was the 75th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1991▾

Forest Area by Country - 1991
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Equatorial Guinea	95.93%	-0.3%
2nd	Suriname	95.78%	0.0%
3rd	Guyana	94.48%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.19%	0.0%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.90%	0.0%
6th	Micronesia, Federated States of	90.87%	-
7th	American Samoa	90.18%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	88.20%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	83.25%	-
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.35%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	79.12%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	78.06%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	77.13%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Northern Mariana Islands	72.71%	-
16th	Finland	72.01%	0.3%
17th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	70.87%	0.4%
18th	Brazil	70.01%	-0.6%
19th	Belize	69.53%	-0.9%
20th	Virgin Islands (US)	68.95%	-1.7%
21st	Sweden	68.92%	0.0%
22nd	Japan	68.41%	0.0%
23rd	Korea	67.84%	-0.1%
24th	Dominica	66.75%	-0.5%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	66.15%	-0.4%
26th	Congo, Republic of	65.31%	-0.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.67%	-0.1%
28th	Indonesia	64.48%	-1.5%
29th	Tanzania	64.37%	-0.6%
30th	Zambia	63.73%	-0.1%
31st	Paraguay	63.66%	-1.0%
32nd	Angola	63.45%	-0.2%
33rd	Malaysia	62.47%	-0.4%
34th	Honduras	62.26%	-0.3%
35th	Cambodia	62.22%	-0.2%
36th	Samoa	62.07%	-0.3%
37th	Panama	61.76%	-0.4%
38th	São Tomé and Principe	61.04%	0.0%
39th	Peru	59.64%	-0.2%
40th	Myanmar	59.34%	-1.1%
41st	Colombia	58.35%	-0.3%
42nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	57.02%	-0.7%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.84%	-0.2%
44th	Mozambique	54.88%	-0.5%
45th	Cayman Islands	54.63%	-0.2%
46th	Bhutan	53.86%	0.4%
47th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	53.11%	-0.5%
48th	Ecuador	52.53%	-0.6%
49th	Nicaragua	52.35%	-1.6%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	-
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Fiji	51.80%	0.7%
53rd	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
54th	Zimbabwe	48.55%	-0.2%
55th	Jamaica	48.13%	0.0%
56th	Senegal	48.09%	-0.5%
57th	Cameroon	47.41%	-0.4%
58th	Trinidad and Tobago	47.08%	-0.2%
59th	Austria	45.83%	0.2%
60th	New Caledonia	45.50%	0.1%
61st	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
62nd	Guatemala	44.08%	-1.2%
63rd	Ghana	43.14%	-1.1%
64th	Sierra Leone	43.04%	-0.6%
65th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
66th	Benin	42.26%	-1.4%
67th	Liechtenstein	40.75%	0.3%
68th	Gambia, The	40.41%	-1.4%
69th	Nepal	39.74%	0.2%
70th	French Polynesia	39.57%	0.3%
71st	Canada	38.84%	0.0%
72nd	Thailand	37.83%	-0.2%
73rd	Puerto Rico (US)	37.34%	3.4%
74th	Central African Republic	37.20%	-0.1%
75th	Sri Lanka	37.19%	-0.8%
76th	Portugal	37.02%	-0.3%
77th	Malawi	36.70%	-1.2%
78th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
79th	European Union	36.22%	0.5%
80th	Mexico	36.20%	-0.3%
81st	New Zealand	35.78%	0.5%
82nd	St. Lucia	34.83%	-0.1%
83rd	El Salvador	34.48%	-0.6%
84th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
85th	Dominican Republic	33.80%	2.4%
86th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
87th	Norway	33.21%	0.0%
88th	United States	33.03%	0.0%
89th	Botswana	32.97%	-0.6%
90th	Germany	32.38%	0.0%
91st	Bulgaria	30.12%	0.1%
92nd	Viet Nam	29.55%	2.6%
93rd	Guinea	29.47%	-0.5%
94th	Switzerland	29.29%	0.4%
95th	Poland	29.06%	0.2%
96th	Nigeria	28.95%	-0.6%
97th	Albania	28.72%	-0.2%
98th	Spain	28.48%	2.3%
99th	Burkina Faso	28.02%	-0.6%
100th	Romania	27.76%	-0.1%
101st	France	26.94%	0.6%
102nd	Eswatini	26.88%	0.3%
103rd	Italy	26.07%	1.0%
104th	Philippines	25.93%	-0.6%
105th	Greece	25.82%	0.9%
106th	Türkiye	25.75%	0.2%
107th	Togo	24.86%	-0.7%
108th	British Virgin Islands	24.71%	-0.1%
109th	Comoros	24.51%	-1.0%
110th	Côte d'Ivoire	23.82%	-3.5%
111th	Madagascar	23.43%	-0.5%
112th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.83%	-0.7%
113th	Singapore	22.46%	1.5%
114th	India	21.63%	0.6%
115th	Chile	20.58%	0.4%
116th	Hungary	20.30%	0.6%
117th	Mauritius	20.27%	0.2%
118th	Cuba	19.51%	1.8%
119th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
120th	Uganda	17.69%	-1.2%
121st	Cyprus	17.55%	0.7%
122nd	Australia	17.40%	-0.2%
123rd	China	16.95%	1.3%
124th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
125th	South Africa	14.93%	-0.2%
126th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
127th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
128th	Haiti	13.89%	-0.1%
129th	Lebanon	13.64%	-0.1%
130th	Denmark	13.39%	0.8%
131st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	13.08%	-0.9%
132nd	Argentina	12.80%	-0.5%
133rd	Rwanda	12.73%	-0.9%
134th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
135th	Morocco	12.30%	0.0%
136th	United Kingdom	11.56%	0.6%
137th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
138th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
139th	Namibia	10.57%	-0.8%
140th	Burundi	10.44%	-3.0%
141st	Netherlands	10.27%	0.4%
142nd	Mongolia	9.27%	-0.1%
143rd	Ireland	6.95%	3.7%
144th	Kenya	6.80%	0.3%
145th	Pakistan	6.41%	-1.0%
146th	Israel	6.20%	1.6%
147th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
148th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.59%	0.3%
149th	Chad	5.31%	-0.6%
150th	Uruguay	4.89%	7.2%
151st	Cabo Verde	4.42%	15.8%
152nd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
153rd	Tunisia	4.16%	0.4%
154th	United Arab Emirates	3.54%	2.6%
155th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
156th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
157th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.06%	1.6%
158th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
159th	Iraq	1.84%	0.2%
160th	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
161st	Niger	1.49%	-3.2%
162nd	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
163rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
164th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
165th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
166th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
167th	Algeria	0.70%	-0.5%
168th	Mauritania	0.46%	-1.1%
169th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
170th	Bahrain	0.34%	6.8%
171st	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
172nd	Kuwait	0.20%	4.1%
173rd	Iceland	0.18%	7.5%
174th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
175th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
176th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.5%
177th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
178th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
179th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
180th	Monaco	0.00%	-
181st	Nauru	0.00%	-
182nd	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's forest area in 1991?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 1991 was 37.19%. This ranked 75th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 1991?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.8% in 1991 compared to 1990.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1991?▾

Equatorial Guinea had the highest forest area in 1991 at 95.93%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 1991?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 1991 was 37.19%. This ranked 75th globally.

How does 1991 compare to 1990 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 37.48% in 1990 to 37.19% in 1991, a 0.8% decrease.

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