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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 1995

Name: Sri Lanka Forest Area 1995
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

36.01% −0.29% from 1994 Global rank: 89th

Sri Lanka's forest area was 36.01% in 1995, decreased +0.29% from 36.31% in 1994. This was the 89th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1995▾

Forest Area by Country - 1995
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.69%	0.0%
2nd	Equatorial Guinea	94.74%	-0.3%
3rd	Guyana	94.40%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.10%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.03%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.79%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	89.50%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	86.94%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	84.49%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.24%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	77.92%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	76.85%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.40%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Finland	72.76%	0.3%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.90%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	71.27%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.02%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.33%	0.0%
20th	Brazil	68.20%	-0.7%
21st	Korea	67.53%	-0.1%
22nd	Belize	67.06%	-0.9%
23rd	Dominica	65.45%	-0.5%
24th	Congo, Republic of	65.17%	-0.1%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	64.96%	-0.5%
26th	Virgin Islands (US)	64.30%	-1.8%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.30%	-0.1%
28th	Bhutan	64.23%	0.4%
29th	Zambia	63.54%	-0.1%
30th	Angola	62.95%	-0.2%
31st	Tanzania	62.69%	-0.7%
32nd	Cambodia	61.71%	-0.2%
33rd	Honduras	61.52%	-0.3%
34th	Samoa	61.39%	-0.3%
35th	Malaysia	61.35%	-0.5%
36th	Paraguay	61.08%	-1.0%
37th	São Tomé and Principe	60.93%	0.0%
38th	Panama	60.87%	-0.4%
39th	Indonesia	60.67%	-1.5%
40th	Slovenia	60.10%	0.4%
41st	Peru	59.28%	-0.2%
42nd	Colombia	57.55%	-0.3%
43rd	Myanmar	56.68%	-1.2%
44th	Costa Rica	56.45%	-0.2%
45th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	55.51%	-0.7%
46th	Cayman Islands	54.29%	-0.2%
47th	Mozambique	53.77%	-0.5%
48th	Fiji	53.26%	0.7%
49th	Estonia	52.43%	0.1%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	52.11%	-0.5%
52nd	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
53rd	Latvia	51.54%	0.2%
54th	Ecuador	51.23%	-0.6%
55th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
56th	Russian Federation	49.40%	0.0%
57th	Nicaragua	49.02%	-1.7%
58th	Jamaica	48.12%	0.0%
59th	Zimbabwe	48.07%	-0.2%
60th	Senegal	47.15%	-0.5%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.66%	-0.2%
62nd	Cameroon	46.64%	-0.4%
63rd	Austria	46.13%	0.2%
64th	New Caledonia	45.65%	0.1%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
67th	Puerto Rico (US)	42.25%	3.0%
68th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.20%	-0.5%
69th	Sierra Leone	41.95%	-0.6%
70th	Guatemala	41.95%	-1.3%
71st	Ghana	41.25%	-1.1%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.25%	0.3%
73rd	Nepal	40.04%	0.2%
74th	French Polynesia	40.02%	0.3%
75th	Benin	39.78%	-1.5%
76th	Georgia	39.67%	0.0%
77th	Belarus	39.57%	0.6%
78th	Slovak Republic	39.54%	0.0%
79th	Canada	38.82%	0.0%
80th	Gambia, The	38.14%	-1.5%
81st	Thailand	37.54%	-0.2%
82nd	European Union	37.29%	0.5%
83rd	Central African Republic	37.00%	-0.1%
84th	Dominican Republic	36.92%	2.2%
85th	North Macedonia	36.76%	0.5%
86th	Portugal	36.50%	-0.4%
87th	New Zealand	36.50%	0.5%
88th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
89th	Sri Lanka	36.01%	-0.8%
90th	Mexico	35.75%	-0.3%
91st	Malawi	34.91%	-1.3%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.66%	-0.1%
93rd	Czechia	34.08%	0.0%
94th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
95th	El Salvador	33.61%	-0.6%
96th	Croatia	33.40%	0.2%
97th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
98th	Norway	33.19%	0.0%
99th	United States	33.08%	0.0%
100th	Viet Nam	32.50%	2.3%
101st	Germany	32.45%	0.1%
102nd	Botswana	32.14%	-0.6%
103rd	Lithuania	31.63%	0.4%
104th	Spain	31.03%	2.1%
105th	Bulgaria	30.29%	0.1%
106th	Switzerland	29.72%	0.4%
107th	Poland	29.29%	0.2%
108th	Guinea	28.90%	-0.5%
109th	Albania	28.43%	-0.2%
110th	Nigeria	28.23%	-0.6%
111th	Romania	27.75%	0.0%
112th	France	27.58%	0.6%
113th	Burkina Faso	27.29%	-0.7%
114th	Eswatini	27.16%	0.3%
115th	Italy	27.13%	1.0%
116th	Greece	26.76%	0.9%
117th	Türkiye	25.94%	0.2%
118th	Philippines	25.30%	-0.6%
119th	British Virgin Islands	24.60%	-0.1%
120th	Togo	24.18%	-0.7%
121st	Singapore	23.76%	1.4%
122nd	Comoros	23.57%	-1.0%
123rd	Madagascar	22.98%	-0.5%
124th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.23%	-0.7%
125th	India	22.12%	0.6%
126th	Cuba	20.92%	1.7%
127th	Chile	20.89%	0.4%
128th	Hungary	20.78%	0.6%
129th	Mauritius	20.44%	0.2%
130th	Côte d'Ivoire	20.35%	-4.1%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	18.00%	0.6%
133rd	China	17.80%	1.2%
134th	Australia	17.29%	-0.2%
135th	Uganda	16.86%	-1.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.21%	0.3%
138th	South Africa	14.81%	-0.2%
139th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Haiti	13.85%	-0.1%
142nd	Denmark	13.79%	0.7%
143rd	Lebanon	13.58%	-0.1%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.59%	-1.0%
145th	Argentina	12.53%	-0.5%
146th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
147th	Morocco	12.31%	0.0%
148th	Rwanda	12.24%	-1.0%
149th	United Kingdom	11.85%	0.6%
150th	Armenia	11.72%	-0.1%
151st	Azerbaijan	11.61%	0.4%
152nd	Eritrea	11.23%	-0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Netherlands	10.44%	0.4%
156th	Namibia	10.22%	-0.8%
157th	Moldova	10.17%	0.6%
158th	Mongolia	9.25%	-0.1%
159th	Burundi	9.16%	-3.4%
160th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
161st	Ireland	7.93%	3.2%
162nd	Kenya	6.87%	0.3%
163rd	Cabo Verde	6.84%	9.7%
164th	Israel	6.59%	1.5%
165th	Uzbekistan	6.48%	1.5%
166th	Uruguay	6.19%	5.6%
167th	Pakistan	6.16%	-1.0%
168th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.04%	0.4%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.65%	0.3%
171st	Chad	5.19%	-0.6%
172nd	Tunisia	4.22%	0.4%
173rd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	3.90%	2.4%
175th	Tajikistan	2.92%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.19%	1.5%
179th	Iraq	1.85%	0.2%
180th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
181st	West Bank and Gaza	1.51%	0.0%
182nd	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
183rd	Niger	1.29%	-3.6%
184th	Kazakhstan	1.17%	0.0%
185th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
186th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
187th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
188th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
189th	Algeria	0.68%	-0.5%
190th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
191st	Mauritania	0.44%	-1.2%
192nd	Bahrain	0.42%	5.4%
193rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
194th	Iceland	0.23%	5.8%
195th	Kuwait	0.23%	3.5%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
198th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.1%
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 Sri Lanka's forest area in 1995?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 1995 was 36.01%. This ranked 89th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 1995?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.8% in 1995 compared to 1994.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1995?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1995 at 95.69%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 1995?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 1995 was 36.01%. This ranked 89th globally.

How does 1995 compare to 1994 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 36.31% in 1994 to 36.01% in 1995, a 0.8% decrease.

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