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Sri Lanka - Forest Area 2017

Name: Sri Lanka Forest Area 2017
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

34.29% −0.05% from 2016 Global rank: 93rd

Sri Lanka's forest area was 34.29% in 2017, decreased +0.05% from 34.34% in 2016. This was the 93rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2017▾

Forest Area by Country - 2017
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	94.91%	0.0%
2nd	Guyana	93.69%	0.0%
3rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.90%	0.0%
4th	Gabon	91.46%	-0.1%
5th	Solomon Islands	90.22%	0.0%
6th	Palau	89.48%	0.2%
7th	Equatorial Guinea	88.18%	-0.3%
8th	American Samoa	86.10%	-0.2%
9th	Liberia	80.03%	-0.4%
10th	Papua New Guinea	79.40%	-0.1%
11th	Finland	73.73%	0.0%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Lao PDR	72.35%	-0.2%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
16th	Guinea-Bissau	71.31%	-0.4%
17th	Bhutan	71.29%	0.1%
18th	Sweden	68.69%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.41%	0.0%
20th	Korea	64.78%	-0.1%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.40%	-0.1%
22nd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
23rd	Timor-Leste	62.25%	-0.1%
24th	Slovenia	61.77%	-0.1%
25th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
26th	Fiji	61.30%	0.6%
27th	Zambia	61.04%	-0.4%
28th	Brazil	59.83%	-0.4%
29th	Samoa	58.67%	1.5%
30th	Malaysia	58.63%	-0.3%
31st	Costa Rica	58.48%	0.6%
32nd	Belize	57.45%	-0.8%
33rd	Honduras	57.40%	-0.3%
34th	Panama	57.31%	-0.3%
35th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	57.10%	-0.8%
36th	Estonia	57.04%	2.4%
37th	Peru	56.90%	-0.2%
38th	São Tomé and Principe	56.00%	-1.1%
39th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.79%	0.1%
40th	Virgin Islands (US)	55.60%	0.8%
41st	Angola	54.76%	-0.8%
42nd	Latvia	54.63%	0.1%
43rd	Jamaica	54.04%	0.7%
44th	Colombia	53.84%	-0.4%
45th	Tanzania	53.23%	-1.0%
46th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
47th	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	0.0%
48th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
49th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
50th	Guam	51.85%	0.0%
51st	Ecuador	51.10%	-0.5%
52nd	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	50.61%	-0.3%
54th	Indonesia	50.04%	-1.4%
55th	Russian Federation	49.78%	0.0%
56th	Cambodia	48.35%	-1.8%
57th	Mozambique	47.57%	-0.6%
58th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	47.53%	-0.5%
59th	Austria	47.12%	0.1%
60th	Viet Nam	46.00%	0.3%
61st	New Caledonia	45.86%	0.0%
62nd	Zimbabwe	45.45%	-0.3%
63rd	Myanmar	45.06%	-1.0%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	44.73%	-0.2%
65th	Dominican Republic	43.88%	0.4%
66th	Cameroon	43.38%	-0.3%
67th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
68th	Belarus	42.98%	0.2%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.73%	0.5%
70th	Paraguay	42.64%	-2.3%
71st	Senegal	42.53%	-0.5%
72nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
73rd	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.0%
74th	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
75th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
76th	Slovak Republic	40.06%	0.1%
77th	North Macedonia	39.71%	0.0%
78th	European Union	39.71%	0.2%
79th	Thailand	39.11%	-0.2%
80th	Canada	38.71%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.41%	0.0%
82nd	Spain	37.15%	0.0%
83rd	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
84th	Portugal	36.15%	0.0%
85th	Central African Republic	35.94%	-0.1%
86th	Sierra Leone	35.94%	-0.8%
87th	Bulgaria	35.50%	0.3%
88th	Lithuania	35.06%	0.3%
89th	Ghana	35.00%	0.5%
90th	Czechia	34.60%	0.1%
91st	Croatia	34.52%	0.4%
92nd	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
93rd	Sri Lanka	34.29%	-0.1%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	Mexico	33.99%	-0.2%
97th	United States	33.87%	-0.1%
98th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
99th	Norway	33.29%	0.1%
100th	Guatemala	33.25%	-0.3%
101st	Germany	32.68%	0.0%
102nd	Switzerland	31.86%	0.3%
103rd	Italy	31.80%	0.6%
104th	France	31.55%	0.5%
105th	Cuba	31.23%	0.3%
106th	Serbia	31.12%	0.1%
107th	Poland	30.85%	0.1%
108th	Nicaragua	30.81%	-2.6%
109th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
110th	Romania	30.12%	0.0%
111th	Benin	29.13%	-1.5%
112th	El Salvador	28.83%	-0.7%
113th	Albania	28.79%	0.0%
114th	Eswatini	28.72%	0.2%
115th	Türkiye	28.26%	0.6%
116th	Botswana	27.54%	-0.8%
117th	Gambia, The	25.68%	-2.2%
118th	Guinea	25.68%	-0.6%
119th	Malawi	25.11%	-1.7%
120th	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
121st	Nigeria	24.28%	-0.7%
122nd	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	0.0%
123rd	Chile	24.04%	0.7%
124th	India	24.00%	0.4%
125th	Philippines	23.76%	0.5%
126th	Burkina Faso	23.27%	-0.8%
127th	China	22.83%	0.9%
128th	Belgium	22.72%	0.0%
129th	Singapore	22.63%	-1.5%
130th	Hungary	22.54%	-0.1%
131st	Togo	22.40%	-0.2%
132nd	Madagascar	21.43%	-0.1%
133rd	Mauritius	19.35%	0.9%
134th	Antigua and Barbuda	18.91%	-0.7%
135th	Cyprus	18.68%	0.0%
136th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
137th	Comoros	18.39%	-1.3%
138th	Australia	17.42%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.69%	0.1%
140th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	15.64%	0.2%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.47%	0.0%
144th	South Africa	14.15%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	13.83%	0.4%
146th	Azerbaijan	13.27%	0.9%
147th	United Kingdom	13.08%	0.2%
148th	Haiti	12.94%	-0.9%
149th	Morocco	12.80%	0.2%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Uganda	12.28%	-1.6%
152nd	Moldova	11.75%	0.0%
153rd	Armenia	11.56%	-0.1%
154th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
155th	Uruguay	11.24%	1.1%
156th	Ireland	11.18%	1.0%
157th	Cabo Verde	11.12%	0.7%
158th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
159th	Rwanda	11.07%	0.4%
160th	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
161st	Netherlands	10.89%	0.3%
162nd	Burundi	10.89%	0.0%
163rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
164th	Argentina	10.56%	-0.4%
165th	Sudan	10.10%	-0.9%
166th	Côte d'Ivoire	9.99%	-3.4%
167th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9.90%	-1.2%
168th	Mongolia	9.10%	0.0%
169th	Eritrea	8.79%	-0.3%
170th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
171st	Namibia	8.32%	-1.0%
172nd	Uzbekistan	8.20%	0.7%
173rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.60%	0.5%
174th	Kyrgyz Republic	6.57%	0.4%
175th	Israel	6.47%	0.0%
176th	Kenya	6.23%	0.5%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	4.99%	-0.5%
180th	Tunisia	4.49%	0.2%
181st	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
182nd	Chad	3.69%	-2.5%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.04%	0.0%
184th	Syrian Arab Republic	2.84%	0.0%
185th	Maldives	2.73%	0.0%
186th	Aruba	2.33%	0.0%
187th	Iraq	1.90%	0.0%
188th	Afghanistan	1.85%	0.0%
189th	West Bank and Gaza	1.68%	0.0%
190th	Kiribati	1.46%	0.0%
191st	Malta	1.31%	10.5%
192nd	Kazakhstan	1.25%	0.9%
193rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
194th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Niger	0.88%	-1.1%
197th	Bahrain	0.82%	3.1%
198th	Algeria	0.82%	-0.7%
199th	Iceland	0.49%	1.5%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.32%	-1.6%
203rd	Djibouti	0.24%	0.2%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	0.0%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	0.0%
208th	Oman	0.01%	-3.6%
209th	Greenland	0.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	0.00%	-
211th	Monaco	0.00%	-
212th	Nauru	0.00%	-
213th	Qatar	0.00%	-

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's forest area in 2017?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area in 2017 was 34.29%. This ranked 93rd globally.

How did Sri Lanka's forest area change in 2017?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area decreased by 0.1% in 2017 compared to 2016.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2017?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2017 at 94.91%.

What is the forest area of Sri Lanka in 2017?▾

The forest area of Sri Lanka in 2017 was 34.29%. This ranked 93rd globally.

How does 2017 compare to 2016 for Sri Lanka's forest area?▾

Sri Lanka's forest area went from 34.34% in 2016 to 34.29% in 2017, a 0.1% decrease.

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