Tonga Forest Area

Tonga’s forest area has remained remarkably steady over the 35‑year span covered by the World Bank data, holding at 12.43 percent of total land area in both the earliest observation in 1990 and the most recent estimate for 2025, which also marks the all‑time peak for the series. The same figure represented the all‑time trough in 2023, indicating no measurable loss or gain across the period. With a global rank of 149, Tonga’s forest cover is comparable to that of Uruguay (12.20 percent) and slightly lower than Morocco’s 12.98 percent, while remaining modestly below the United Kingdom’s 13.36 percent and Haiti’s 12.04 percent. The constancy of the metric suggests that existing land‑use policies, reforestation initiatives, and natural regeneration have balanced any pressures from agricultural expansion or development. Continued investment in sustainable forest management and climate‑resilient planting could preserve this stability, whereas intensified logging or land conversion would be required to alter the current trajectory.