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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 2003

Name: Sri Lanka Forest Area 2003
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

34.25% −0.10% from 2002 Global rank: 92nd

Sri Lanka's forest area was 34.25% in 2003, decreased +0.10% from 34.35% in 2002. This was the 92nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2003▾

Forest Area by Country - 2003
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.50%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.24%	0.0%
3rd	Equatorial Guinea	92.35%	-0.3%
4th	Gabon	91.92%	0.0%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.34%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.58%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	88.20%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	86.68%	0.2%
9th	Liberia	84.43%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.04%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	75.52%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	74.87%	-0.3%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	74.36%	-0.4%
14th	Finland	73.49%	-0.1%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
17th	Sweden	69.07%	0.0%
18th	Northern Mariana Islands	68.41%	-0.5%
19th	Japan	68.32%	0.0%
20th	Korea	66.63%	-0.1%
21st	Bhutan	66.23%	0.4%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.89%	-0.1%
23rd	Brazil	64.52%	-0.7%
24th	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
25th	Timor-Leste	63.54%	-0.1%
26th	Zambia	63.15%	-0.1%
27th	Belize	63.08%	-0.5%
28th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	62.58%	-0.5%
29th	Slovenia	61.43%	0.1%
30th	Angola	61.00%	-0.7%
31st	Cambodia	60.75%	-0.2%
32nd	São Tomé and Principe	60.71%	0.0%
33rd	Honduras	60.04%	-0.3%
34th	Samoa	60.02%	-0.3%
35th	Tanzania	59.33%	-0.7%
36th	Panama	59.29%	-0.3%
37th	Malaysia	59.26%	-0.4%
38th	Peru	58.53%	-0.2%
39th	Virgin Islands (US)	56.74%	-1.0%
40th	Fiji	56.19%	0.7%
41st	Costa Rica	56.04%	0.0%
42nd	Colombia	56.02%	-0.3%
43rd	Paraguay	55.29%	-1.5%
44th	Ecuador	54.44%	-0.5%
45th	Indonesia	53.68%	-0.2%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.61%	-0.2%
47th	Estonia	53.50%	0.4%
48th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	53.08%	-0.3%
49th	Latvia	52.72%	0.4%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Myanmar	51.78%	-1.0%
53rd	Mozambique	51.53%	-0.5%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Puerto Rico (US)	50.49%	1.4%
56th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	50.31%	-0.4%
57th	Russian Federation	49.51%	0.1%
58th	Jamaica	49.14%	0.7%
59th	Zimbabwe	47.12%	-0.3%
60th	Austria	46.60%	0.1%
61st	Trinidad and Tobago	45.88%	-0.2%
62nd	New Caledonia	45.85%	0.0%
63rd	Senegal	45.38%	-0.4%
64th	Cameroon	45.25%	-0.3%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	French Polynesia	42.88%	0.1%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
68th	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
69th	Nicaragua	41.85%	-2.3%
70th	Dominican Republic	41.45%	0.5%
71st	Belarus	41.32%	0.4%
72nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.19%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	40.71%	0.3%
74th	Georgia	39.99%	0.2%
75th	Sierra Leone	39.77%	-0.7%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.63%	0.1%
77th	Viet Nam	39.56%	1.5%
78th	Canada	38.78%	0.0%
79th	European Union	38.36%	0.3%
80th	Guatemala	37.92%	-1.2%
81st	Thailand	37.82%	0.6%
82nd	Ghana	37.69%	-1.0%
83rd	North Macedonia	37.69%	0.0%
84th	New Zealand	37.41%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	36.62%	-0.1%
86th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
87th	Portugal	35.76%	-0.1%
88th	Benin	35.34%	-1.2%
89th	Spain	35.11%	0.8%
90th	Mexico	34.95%	-0.2%
91st	St. Lucia	34.32%	-0.1%
92nd	Sri Lanka	34.25%	-0.3%
93rd	Czechia	34.21%	0.1%
94th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
95th	Luxembourg	33.91%	0.2%
96th	Croatia	33.87%	0.1%
97th	Gambia, The	33.61%	-1.7%
98th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
99th	United States	33.30%	0.2%
100th	Norway	33.16%	0.0%
101st	Lithuania	32.95%	0.7%
102nd	Germany	32.60%	0.1%
103rd	Bulgaria	32.03%	1.1%
104th	El Salvador	31.87%	-0.7%
105th	Malawi	31.35%	-1.4%
106th	Switzerland	30.56%	0.3%
107th	Botswana	30.47%	-0.7%
108th	Poland	29.85%	0.3%
109th	France	29.00%	0.7%
110th	Italy	28.97%	0.8%
111th	Greece	28.63%	0.8%
112th	Albania	28.22%	0.2%
113th	Romania	27.88%	0.2%
114th	Guinea	27.76%	-0.5%
115th	Eswatini	27.73%	0.3%
116th	Nigeria	26.79%	-0.7%
117th	Türkiye	26.54%	0.5%
118th	Burkina Faso	25.83%	-0.7%
119th	Singapore	25.08%	-1.3%
120th	British Virgin Islands	24.41%	-0.1%
121st	Cuba	24.29%	2.0%
122nd	Philippines	24.04%	-0.7%
123rd	Togo	23.16%	-0.2%
124th	India	22.93%	0.3%
125th	Belgium	22.22%	0.3%
126th	Madagascar	22.17%	-0.4%
127th	Hungary	21.86%	0.6%
128th	Comoros	21.69%	-1.1%
129th	Chile	21.64%	0.6%
130th	Antigua and Barbuda	21.02%	-0.7%
131st	Mauritius	20.13%	-0.9%
132nd	China	19.61%	1.3%
133rd	Cyprus	18.61%	0.1%
134th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
135th	Australia	17.07%	-0.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.43%	0.0%
138th	Uganda	15.21%	-1.3%
139th	Côte d'Ivoire	14.96%	-2.3%
140th	Bangladesh	14.68%	-0.2%
141st	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
142nd	South Africa	14.57%	-0.2%
143rd	Denmark	14.40%	0.3%
144th	Haiti	13.79%	-0.1%
145th	Lebanon	13.48%	-0.1%
146th	Morocco	12.45%	0.3%
147th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
148th	United Kingdom	12.34%	0.4%
149th	Azerbaijan	12.11%	0.4%
150th	Argentina	11.85%	-1.0%
151st	Armenia	11.66%	-0.1%
152nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.61%	-1.0%
153rd	Rwanda	11.37%	-0.8%
154th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
155th	Eritrea	10.98%	-0.3%
156th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.77%	0.4%
158th	Moldova	10.75%	0.9%
159th	Cabo Verde	10.08%	0.7%
160th	Ireland	9.54%	1.4%
161st	Namibia	9.53%	-0.9%
162nd	Mongolia	9.16%	-0.5%
163rd	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
164th	Uruguay	8.44%	2.5%
165th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
166th	Israel	7.08%	0.1%
167th	Uzbekistan	7.06%	1.3%
168th	Kenya	6.78%	-0.9%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.23%	0.4%
170th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
171st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.98%	1.4%
172nd	Pakistan	5.69%	-0.9%
173rd	Chad	4.85%	-1.3%
174th	Channel Islands	4.48%	2.2%
175th	United Arab Emirates	4.39%	0.3%
176th	Tunisia	4.34%	0.3%
177th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
178th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
179th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.45%	1.5%
180th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
181st	Iraq	1.88%	0.1%
182nd	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
183rd	West Bank and Gaza	1.55%	0.9%
184th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
185th	Kazakhstan	1.16%	-0.2%
186th	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
187th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
188th	Malta	1.09%	0.0%
189th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
190th	Niger	1.02%	-1.0%
191st	Algeria	0.71%	2.1%
192nd	Bahrain	0.58%	2.3%
193rd	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
194th	Mauritania	0.39%	-1.3%
195th	Iceland	0.34%	4.5%
196th	Kuwait	0.30%	2.7%
197th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
198th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
199th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	1.1%
200th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
201st	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
202nd	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
203rd	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
204th	Monaco	0.00%	-
205th	Nauru	0.00%	-
206th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's forest area in 2003?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 2003 was 34.25%. This ranked 92nd globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 2003?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.3% in 2003 compared to 2002.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2003?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2003 at 95.50%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 2003?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 2003 was 34.25%. This ranked 92nd globally.

How does 2003 compare to 2002 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 34.35% in 2002 to 34.25% in 2003, a 0.3% decrease.

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