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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 2005

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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

34.05% −0.10% from 2004 Global rank: 94th

Sri Lanka's forest area was 34.05% in 2005, decreased +0.10% from 34.15% in 2004. This was the 94th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2005▾

Forest Area by Country - 2005
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	95.45%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	94.19%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.88%	0.0%
4th	Equatorial Guinea	91.76%	-0.3%
5th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.42%	0.0%
6th	Solomon Islands	90.53%	0.0%
7th	American Samoa	87.90%	-0.2%
8th	Palau	87.11%	0.2%
9th	Liberia	83.80%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	80.00%	0.0%
11th	Guinea-Bissau	74.92%	-0.4%
12th	Lao PDR	74.45%	-0.3%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	73.72%	-0.4%
14th	Finland	73.36%	-0.1%
15th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
16th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	69.67%	0.4%
18th	Sweden	69.03%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.37%	0.0%
20th	Northern Mariana Islands	67.70%	-0.5%
21st	Korea	66.41%	-0.2%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	64.82%	-0.1%
23rd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
24th	Brazil	63.57%	-0.7%
25th	Timor-Leste	63.36%	-0.1%
26th	Zambia	63.06%	-0.1%
27th	Belize	62.49%	-0.5%
28th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	61.99%	-0.5%
29th	Slovenia	61.57%	0.1%
30th	São Tomé and Principe	60.66%	0.0%
31st	Cambodia	60.53%	-0.2%
32nd	Angola	60.11%	-0.7%
33rd	Samoa	59.68%	-0.3%
34th	Honduras	59.67%	-0.3%
35th	Panama	58.99%	-0.3%
36th	Malaysia	58.80%	-0.4%
37th	Tanzania	58.49%	-0.7%
38th	Peru	58.34%	-0.2%
39th	Fiji	56.92%	0.6%
40th	Costa Rica	56.09%	0.0%
41st	Colombia	55.68%	-0.3%
42nd	Virgin Islands (US)	55.57%	-1.0%
43rd	Estonia	53.96%	0.4%
44th	Ecuador	53.87%	-0.5%
45th	Paraguay	53.56%	-1.6%
46th	Indonesia	53.51%	-0.2%
47th	Cayman Islands	53.44%	-0.2%
48th	Latvia	53.14%	0.4%
49th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	52.72%	-0.3%
50th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
51st	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
52nd	Puerto Rico (US)	51.89%	1.4%
53rd	Mozambique	50.97%	-0.5%
54th	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
55th	Myanmar	50.74%	-1.0%
56th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	49.93%	-0.4%
57th	Jamaica	49.84%	0.7%
58th	Russian Federation	49.58%	0.1%
59th	Zimbabwe	46.88%	-0.3%
60th	Austria	46.66%	0.1%
61st	New Caledonia	45.87%	0.0%
62nd	Trinidad and Tobago	45.72%	-0.2%
63rd	Senegal	44.98%	-0.4%
64th	Cameroon	44.95%	-0.3%
65th	Guam	44.44%	0.0%
66th	French Polynesia	42.93%	0.1%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
68th	Liechtenstein	41.87%	0.0%
69th	Dominican Republic	41.87%	0.5%
70th	Belarus	41.67%	0.4%
71st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.16%	0.0%
72nd	Nepal	40.96%	0.3%
73rd	Viet Nam	40.23%	0.4%
74th	Georgia	40.17%	0.2%
75th	Nicaragua	39.83%	-2.5%
76th	Slovak Republic	39.70%	0.1%
77th	Sierra Leone	39.22%	-0.7%
78th	Canada	38.77%	0.0%
79th	European Union	38.61%	0.3%
80th	Thailand	38.24%	0.6%
81st	North Macedonia	37.71%	0.0%
82nd	New Zealand	37.41%	0.0%
83rd	Guatemala	37.01%	-1.2%
84th	Ghana	36.90%	-1.1%
85th	Central African Republic	36.52%	-0.1%
86th	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
87th	Portugal	35.71%	-0.1%
88th	Spain	35.70%	0.8%
89th	Mexico	34.81%	-0.2%
90th	Benin	34.46%	-1.3%
91st	Czechia	34.27%	0.1%
92nd	St. Lucia	34.25%	-0.1%
93rd	Luxembourg	34.07%	0.2%
94th	Sri Lanka	34.05%	-0.3%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Croatia	34.00%	0.2%
97th	Lithuania	33.42%	0.7%
98th	United States	33.41%	0.2%
99th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
100th	Norway	33.15%	0.0%
101st	Bulgaria	32.73%	1.1%
102nd	Germany	32.63%	0.1%
103rd	Gambia, The	32.48%	-1.7%
104th	El Salvador	31.44%	-0.7%
105th	Switzerland	30.76%	0.3%
106th	Malawi	30.46%	-1.4%
107th	Botswana	30.05%	-0.7%
108th	Poland	30.01%	0.3%
109th	France	29.42%	0.7%
110th	Italy	29.42%	0.8%
111th	Greece	29.10%	0.8%
112th	Albania	28.31%	0.2%
113th	Romania	28.00%	0.2%
114th	Eswatini	27.87%	0.3%
115th	Guinea	27.47%	-0.5%
116th	Türkiye	26.79%	0.5%
117th	Nigeria	26.44%	-0.7%
118th	Burkina Faso	25.46%	-0.7%
119th	Singapore	25.22%	0.4%
120th	Cuba	25.21%	1.9%
121st	British Virgin Islands	24.37%	-0.1%
122nd	Philippines	23.73%	-0.7%
123rd	India	23.05%	0.3%
124th	Togo	23.05%	-0.2%
125th	Belgium	22.37%	0.3%
126th	Hungary	22.14%	0.6%
127th	Madagascar	22.00%	-0.4%
128th	Chile	21.88%	0.6%
129th	Comoros	21.22%	-1.1%
130th	Antigua and Barbuda	20.72%	-0.7%
131st	China	20.11%	1.3%
132nd	Mauritius	19.78%	-0.9%
133rd	Cyprus	18.64%	0.1%
134th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
135th	Australia	17.01%	-0.2%
136th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
137th	Ukraine	16.45%	0.0%
138th	Uganda	14.80%	-1.4%
139th	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
140th	Bangladesh	14.63%	-0.2%
141st	South Africa	14.51%	-0.2%
142nd	Denmark	14.48%	0.3%
143rd	Côte d'Ivoire	14.25%	-2.4%
144th	Haiti	13.77%	-0.1%
145th	Lebanon	13.47%	-0.1%
146th	Morocco	12.53%	0.3%
147th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
148th	United Kingdom	12.43%	0.4%
149th	Azerbaijan	12.22%	0.5%
150th	Armenia	11.65%	-0.1%
151st	Argentina	11.62%	-1.0%
152nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.37%	-1.1%
153rd	Rwanda	11.19%	-0.8%
154th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
155th	Moldova	10.93%	0.8%
156th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
157th	Netherlands	10.86%	0.4%
158th	Cabo Verde	10.23%	0.7%
159th	Ireland	9.80%	1.4%
160th	Namibia	9.36%	-0.9%
161st	Mongolia	9.15%	-0.1%
162nd	Eritrea	9.11%	-0.3%
163rd	Uruguay	8.86%	2.4%
164th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
165th	Burundi	7.55%	0.0%
166th	Uzbekistan	7.24%	1.2%
167th	Israel	7.09%	0.1%
168th	Kenya	6.66%	-0.9%
169th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.28%	0.4%
170th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.15%	1.4%
171st	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
172nd	Pakistan	5.58%	-1.0%
173rd	Chad	4.72%	-1.4%
174th	Channel Islands	4.67%	2.1%
175th	United Arab Emirates	4.41%	0.3%
176th	Tunisia	4.36%	0.3%
177th	Tajikistan	2.93%	0.0%
178th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
179th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.52%	1.3%
180th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
181st	Iraq	1.88%	0.1%
182nd	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
183rd	West Bank and Gaza	1.58%	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	1.00%	-1.0%
191st	Algeria	0.73%	2.0%
192nd	Bahrain	0.60%	2.1%
193rd	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
194th	Mauritania	0.38%	-1.4%
195th	Iceland	0.37%	4.1%
196th	Kuwait	0.31%	2.6%
197th	Djibouti	0.24%	0.0%
198th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
199th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.06%	1.0%
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 2005?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 2005 was 34.05%. This ranked 94th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 2005?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.3% in 2005 compared to 2004.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2005?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2005 at 95.45%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 2005?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 2005 was 34.05%. This ranked 94th globally.

How does 2005 compare to 2004 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 34.15% in 2004 to 34.05% in 2005, a 0.3% decrease.

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