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Viet Nam - Forest Area 2020

Name: Viet Nam Forest Area 2020
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Forest area as % of land area · World Bank

46.72% +0.24% from 2019 Global rank: 59th

Viet Nam's forest area was 46.72% in 2020, increased +0.24% from 46.48% in 2019. This was the 59th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2020▾

Forest Area by Country - 2020
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Suriname	94.68%	-0.1%
2nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	92.03%	0.0%
3rd	Gabon	91.32%	-0.1%
4th	Solomon Islands	90.14%	0.0%
5th	Palau	90.02%	0.2%
6th	Equatorial Guinea	87.29%	-0.3%
7th	Guyana	87.22%	-6.8%
8th	American Samoa	85.65%	-0.2%
9th	Papua New Guinea	79.18%	-0.1%
10th	Liberia	79.08%	-0.4%
11th	Finland	73.73%	0.0%
12th	Seychelles	73.26%	0.0%
13th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.18%	0.0%
14th	Brunei Darussalam	72.11%	0.0%
15th	Lao PDR	71.90%	-0.2%
16th	Bhutan	71.45%	0.1%
17th	Guinea-Bissau	70.41%	-0.4%
18th	Sweden	68.70%	0.0%
19th	Japan	68.41%	0.0%
20th	Korea	64.42%	-0.2%
21st	Congo, Republic of	64.26%	-0.1%
22nd	Dominica	63.83%	0.0%
23rd	Fiji	62.40%	0.6%
24th	Timor-Leste	61.94%	-0.2%
25th	Montenegro	61.49%	0.0%
26th	Slovenia	61.47%	-0.2%
27th	Zambia	60.28%	-0.4%
28th	Costa Rica	59.44%	0.5%
29th	Brazil	59.42%	-0.2%
30th	Malaysia	58.18%	-0.3%
31st	Samoa	58.15%	-0.3%
32nd	Estonia	57.04%	0.0%
33rd	Virgin Islands (US)	56.89%	0.8%
34th	Honduras	56.83%	-0.3%
35th	Panama	56.81%	-0.3%
36th	Peru	56.51%	-0.2%
37th	Belize	55.99%	-0.9%
38th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.96%	0.1%
39th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	55.65%	-0.9%
40th	Jamaica	55.11%	0.7%
41st	Latvia	54.81%	0.1%
42nd	São Tomé and Principe	54.06%	-1.2%
43rd	Angola	53.43%	-0.8%
44th	Colombia	53.31%	-0.3%
45th	Cayman Islands	53.00%	0.0%
46th	Northern Mariana Islands	52.96%	0.0%
47th	Marshall Islands	52.22%	0.0%
48th	Grenada	52.06%	0.0%
49th	Guam	51.85%	0.0%
50th	Tanzania	51.64%	-1.0%
51st	Bahamas, The	50.94%	0.0%
52nd	Ecuador	50.32%	-0.5%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	50.08%	-0.3%
54th	Russian Federation	49.78%	0.0%
55th	Indonesia	49.07%	-0.7%
56th	Austria	47.14%	0.1%
57th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	46.92%	-0.4%
58th	Mozambique	46.73%	-0.6%
59th	Viet Nam	46.72%	0.5%
60th	New Caledonia	45.84%	0.0%
61st	Cambodia	45.71%	-1.9%
62nd	Zimbabwe	45.09%	-0.3%
63rd	Dominican Republic	44.49%	0.4%
64th	Trinidad and Tobago	44.48%	-0.2%
65th	Myanmar	43.73%	-1.0%
66th	Belarus	43.19%	0.2%
67th	French Polynesia	43.06%	0.0%
68th	Cameroon	43.03%	-0.3%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.73%	0.0%
70th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.31%	0.0%
71st	Senegal	41.91%	-0.5%
72nd	Liechtenstein	41.88%	0.0%
73rd	Nepal	41.59%	0.0%
74th	Georgia	40.62%	0.0%
75th	Paraguay	40.53%	-1.7%
76th	Slovak Republic	40.06%	0.0%
77th	European Union	39.84%	0.1%
78th	North Macedonia	39.71%	0.0%
79th	Thailand	38.90%	-0.2%
80th	Canada	38.70%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	37.57%	0.3%
82nd	Spain	37.18%	0.0%
83rd	Vanuatu	36.28%	0.0%
84th	Portugal	36.15%	0.0%
85th	Bulgaria	35.86%	0.3%
86th	Central African Republic	35.80%	-0.1%
87th	Lithuania	35.15%	0.0%
88th	Sierra Leone	35.12%	-0.8%
89th	Ghana	35.10%	0.1%
90th	Czechia	34.68%	0.1%
91st	Croatia	34.65%	0.1%
92nd	Luxembourg	34.45%	0.0%
93rd	Sri Lanka	34.16%	-0.1%
94th	St. Lucia	34.05%	0.0%
95th	Andorra	34.04%	0.0%
96th	United States	33.87%	0.0%
97th	Mexico	33.79%	-0.2%
98th	Norway	33.44%	0.3%
99th	Tuvalu	33.33%	0.0%
100th	Guatemala	32.92%	-0.3%
101st	Germany	32.68%	0.0%
102nd	Serbia	32.38%	4.0%
103rd	Italy	32.35%	0.6%
104th	Switzerland	32.12%	0.3%
105th	France	32.01%	0.5%
106th	Cuba	31.23%	0.0%
107th	Poland	30.98%	0.1%
108th	Greece	30.27%	0.0%
109th	Romania	30.12%	0.0%
110th	Eswatini	28.93%	0.2%
111th	Türkiye	28.87%	0.7%
112th	Albania	28.79%	0.0%
113th	Nicaragua	28.32%	-2.9%
114th	El Salvador	28.18%	-0.8%
115th	Benin	27.80%	-1.6%
116th	Botswana	26.92%	-0.8%
117th	Guinea	25.19%	-0.6%
118th	St. Martin (French part)	24.80%	0.0%
119th	Chile	24.52%	0.7%
120th	India	24.27%	0.4%
121st	British Virgin Islands	24.13%	0.0%
122nd	Philippines	24.11%	0.5%
123rd	Gambia, The	23.98%	-2.3%
124th	Malawi	23.78%	-1.8%
125th	Nigeria	23.75%	-0.7%
126th	China	23.43%	0.9%
127th	Burkina Faso	22.72%	-0.8%
128th	Belgium	22.60%	0.0%
129th	Hungary	22.50%	-0.1%
130th	Togo	22.23%	-0.2%
131st	Singapore	21.69%	-1.4%
132nd	Madagascar	21.36%	-0.1%
133rd	Mauritius	19.41%	0.1%
134th	Cyprus	18.67%	0.0%
135th	Bermuda	18.52%	0.0%
136th	Antigua and Barbuda	18.45%	-0.7%
137th	Comoros	17.69%	-1.3%
138th	Australia	17.42%	0.0%
139th	Ukraine	16.72%	0.1%
140th	San Marino	16.67%	0.0%
141st	Denmark	15.71%	0.1%
142nd	Barbados	14.65%	0.0%
143rd	Bangladesh	14.47%	0.0%
144th	South Africa	14.06%	-0.2%
145th	Lebanon	14.01%	0.4%
146th	Azerbaijan	13.69%	1.0%
147th	United Kingdom	13.19%	0.3%
148th	Morocco	12.87%	0.2%
149th	Haiti	12.60%	-0.9%
150th	Tonga	12.43%	0.0%
151st	Moldova	11.75%	0.0%
152nd	Uganda	11.66%	-1.7%
153rd	Armenia	11.65%	0.9%
154th	Uruguay	11.60%	1.0%
155th	Ireland	11.35%	0.5%
156th	Cabo Verde	11.34%	0.7%
157th	South Sudan	11.33%	0.0%
158th	Rwanda	11.19%	0.4%
159th	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.07%	0.0%
160th	Netherlands	10.97%	0.3%
161st	Mali	10.90%	0.0%
162nd	Burundi	10.89%	0.0%
163rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10.88%	0.0%
164th	Argentina	10.44%	-0.4%
165th	Sudan	9.83%	-0.9%
166th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	9.53%	-1.3%
167th	Mongolia	9.10%	0.0%
168th	Côte d'Ivoire	8.92%	-3.8%
169th	Turkmenistan	8.78%	0.0%
170th	Eritrea	8.72%	-0.3%
171st	Uzbekistan	8.37%	0.7%
172nd	Namibia	8.06%	-1.1%
173rd	Kyrgyz Republic	6.86%	1.4%
174th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	6.63%	0.1%
175th	Israel	6.47%	0.0%
176th	Kenya	6.22%	-0.3%
177th	Isle of Man	6.07%	0.0%
178th	Channel Islands	5.15%	0.0%
179th	Pakistan	4.83%	-1.1%
180th	Tunisia	4.52%	0.2%
181st	United Arab Emirates	4.47%	0.0%
182nd	Chad	3.43%	-2.5%
183rd	Tajikistan	3.05%	0.2%
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	1.44%	0.0%
192nd	Kazakhstan	1.28%	0.9%
193rd	Lesotho	1.14%	0.0%
194th	Jordan	1.10%	0.0%
195th	Yemen, Republic of	1.04%	0.0%
196th	Bahrain	0.89%	2.3%
197th	Niger	0.85%	-1.1%
198th	Algeria	0.82%	0.5%
199th	Iceland	0.51%	1.3%
200th	Saudi Arabia	0.45%	0.0%
201st	Kuwait	0.35%	0.0%
202nd	Mauritania	0.30%	-1.7%
203rd	Djibouti	0.25%	1.8%
204th	Curaçao	0.16%	0.0%
205th	Libya	0.12%	0.0%
206th	Faroe Islands	0.06%	2.2%
207th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	0.05%	0.0%
208th	Oman	0.01%	0.0%
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 Viet Nam's forest area in 2020?▾

Viet Nam's forest area in 2020 was 46.72%. This ranked 59th globally.

How did Viet Nam's forest area change in 2020?▾

Viet Nam's forest area increased by 0.5% in 2020 compared to 2019.

Which country had the highest forest area in 2020?▾

Suriname had the highest forest area in 2020 at 94.68%.

What is the forest area of Viet Nam in 2020?▾

The forest area of Viet Nam in 2020 was 46.72%. This ranked 59th globally.

How does 2020 compare to 2019 for Viet Nam's forest area?▾

Viet Nam's forest area went from 46.48% in 2019 to 46.72% in 2020, a 0.5% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Viet Nam matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2020. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 8.5%. View full analysis →

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