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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 1996

Name: Sri Lanka Forest Area 1996
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

35.72% −0.29% from 1995 Global rank: 89th

Sri Lanka's forest area was 35.72% in 1996, decreased +0.29% from 36.01% in 1995. This was the 89th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1996▾

Forest Area by Country - 1996
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.67%	0.0%
2nd	Equatorial Guinea	94.44%	-0.3%
3rd	Guyana	94.38%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	92.07%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.07%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.77%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	89.33%	-0.2%
8th	Liberia	86.62%	-0.4%
9th	Palau	84.80%	0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.22%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	77.62%	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	76.55%	-0.4%
13th	Lao PDR	76.22%	-0.2%
14th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
15th	Finland	72.94%	0.3%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	72.15%	0.4%
17th	Northern Mariana Islands	70.91%	-0.5%
18th	Sweden	69.04%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.33%	0.0%
20th	Brazil	67.74%	-0.7%
21st	Korea	67.45%	-0.1%
22nd	Belize	66.44%	-0.9%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	65.13%	-0.1%
24th	Dominica	65.13%	-0.5%
25th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	64.66%	-0.5%
26th	Bhutan	64.48%	0.4%
27th	Timor-Leste	64.20%	-0.1%
28th	Zambia	63.49%	-0.1%
29th	Virgin Islands (US)	63.14%	-1.8%
30th	Angola	62.83%	-0.2%
31st	Tanzania	62.27%	-0.7%
32nd	Cambodia	61.58%	-0.2%
33rd	Honduras	61.33%	-0.3%
34th	Samoa	61.21%	-0.3%
35th	Malaysia	61.06%	-0.5%
36th	São Tomé and Principe	60.90%	0.0%
37th	Panama	60.64%	-0.4%
38th	Paraguay	60.44%	-1.1%
39th	Slovenia	60.33%	0.4%
40th	Indonesia	59.72%	-1.6%
41st	Peru	59.19%	-0.2%
42nd	Colombia	57.35%	-0.3%
43rd	Costa Rica	56.35%	-0.2%
44th	Myanmar	56.02%	-1.2%
45th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	55.13%	-0.7%
46th	Cayman Islands	54.21%	-0.2%
47th	Fiji	53.63%	0.7%
48th	Mozambique	53.49%	-0.5%
49th	Estonia	52.51%	0.1%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.86%	-0.5%
53rd	Latvia	51.65%	0.2%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Ecuador	50.90%	-0.6%
56th	Russian Federation	49.40%	0.0%
57th	Nicaragua	48.19%	-1.7%
58th	Jamaica	48.12%	0.0%
59th	Zimbabwe	47.95%	-0.2%
60th	Senegal	46.92%	-0.5%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	46.55%	-0.2%
62nd	Cameroon	46.45%	-0.4%
63rd	Austria	46.21%	0.2%
64th	New Caledonia	45.69%	0.1%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	Puerto Rico (US)	43.47%	2.9%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
68th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.01%	-0.5%
69th	Sierra Leone	41.68%	-0.7%
70th	Guatemala	41.41%	-1.3%
71st	Liechtenstein	41.38%	0.3%
72nd	Ghana	40.78%	-1.1%
73rd	French Polynesia	40.14%	0.3%
74th	Nepal	40.12%	0.2%
75th	Belarus	39.81%	0.6%
76th	Georgia	39.68%	0.0%
77th	Slovak Republic	39.54%	0.0%
78th	Benin	39.16%	-1.6%
79th	Canada	38.81%	0.0%
80th	Dominican Republic	37.70%	2.1%
81st	Gambia, The	37.58%	-1.5%
82nd	Thailand	37.47%	-0.2%
83rd	European Union	37.45%	0.4%
84th	Central African Republic	36.96%	-0.1%
85th	North Macedonia	36.94%	0.5%
86th	New Zealand	36.68%	0.5%
87th	Portugal	36.37%	-0.4%
88th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
89th	Sri Lanka	35.72%	-0.8%
90th	Mexico	35.63%	-0.3%
91st	St. Lucia	34.61%	-0.1%
92nd	Malawi	34.47%	-1.3%
93rd	Czechia	34.09%	0.0%
94th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
95th	Croatia	33.42%	0.1%
96th	El Salvador	33.39%	-0.6%
97th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
98th	Viet Nam	33.24%	2.3%
99th	Norway	33.18%	0.0%
100th	United States	33.09%	0.0%
101st	Germany	32.46%	0.1%
102nd	Botswana	31.93%	-0.6%
103rd	Lithuania	31.75%	0.4%
104th	Spain	31.67%	2.1%
105th	Bulgaria	30.33%	0.1%
106th	Switzerland	29.83%	0.4%
107th	Poland	29.35%	0.2%
108th	Guinea	28.76%	-0.5%
109th	Albania	28.36%	-0.3%
110th	Nigeria	28.05%	-0.6%
111th	Romania	27.74%	0.0%
112th	France	27.73%	0.6%
113th	Italy	27.40%	1.0%
114th	Eswatini	27.23%	0.3%
115th	Burkina Faso	27.11%	-0.7%
116th	Greece	26.99%	0.9%
117th	Türkiye	25.99%	0.2%
118th	Philippines	25.14%	-0.6%
119th	British Virgin Islands	24.57%	-0.1%
120th	Singapore	24.09%	1.4%
121st	Togo	24.01%	-0.7%
122nd	Comoros	23.34%	-1.0%
123rd	Madagascar	22.86%	-0.5%
124th	India	22.24%	0.6%
125th	Antigua and Barbuda	22.08%	-0.7%
126th	Cuba	21.27%	1.7%
127th	Chile	20.97%	0.4%
128th	Hungary	20.90%	0.6%
129th	Mauritius	20.49%	0.2%
130th	Côte d'Ivoire	19.49%	-4.3%
131st	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
132nd	Cyprus	18.12%	0.6%
133rd	China	18.01%	1.2%
134th	Australia	17.27%	-0.2%
135th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
136th	Uganda	16.66%	-1.2%
137th	Ukraine	16.25%	0.3%
138th	South Africa	14.78%	-0.2%
139th	Bangladesh	14.75%	0.0%
140th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	13.89%	0.7%
142nd	Haiti	13.84%	-0.1%
143rd	Lebanon	13.57%	-0.1%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	12.47%	-1.0%
145th	Argentina	12.46%	-0.5%
146th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
147th	Morocco	12.32%	0.0%
148th	Rwanda	12.12%	-1.0%
149th	United Kingdom	11.92%	0.6%
150th	Armenia	11.71%	-0.1%
151st	Azerbaijan	11.66%	0.4%
152nd	Eritrea	11.20%	-0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
154th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
155th	Netherlands	10.48%	0.4%
156th	Moldova	10.23%	0.6%
157th	Namibia	10.13%	-0.8%
158th	Mongolia	9.24%	-0.1%
159th	Burundi	8.84%	-3.5%
160th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
161st	Ireland	8.17%	3.1%
162nd	Cabo Verde	7.44%	8.8%
163rd	Kenya	6.89%	0.3%
164th	Israel	6.68%	1.5%
165th	Uzbekistan	6.57%	1.5%
166th	Uruguay	6.52%	5.3%
167th	Pakistan	6.10%	-1.0%
168th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.06%	0.4%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.66%	0.3%
171st	Chad	5.17%	-0.6%
172nd	Tunisia	4.24%	0.4%
173rd	Channel Islands	4.19%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	3.99%	2.3%
175th	Tajikistan	2.92%	0.0%
176th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
177th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
178th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.22%	1.5%
179th	Iraq	1.86%	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	1.24%	-3.8%
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	Bahrain	0.44%	5.1%
192nd	Mauritania	0.43%	-1.2%
193rd	Iceland	0.25%	5.4%
194th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
195th	Kuwait	0.24%	3.4%
196th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
197th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
198th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	3.0%
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 Sri Lanka's forest area in 1996?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 1996 was 35.72%. This ranked 89th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 1996?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.8% in 1996 compared to 1995.

Which country had the highest forest area in 1996?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 1996 at 95.67%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 1996?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 1996 was 35.72%. This ranked 89th globally.

How does 1996 compare to 1995 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 36.01% in 1995 to 35.72% in 1996, a 0.8% decrease.

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