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Forest area in Asia

48 countries in Asia, 2023. Unit: % of land area. World ranking →

First in the ranking

72.1 %

Brunei

Median country

14.1 %

half above, half below

World

31.1 %

World Bank aggregate

Range

0.0 to 72.1

Qatar - Brunei

How to read it

Across 48 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Brunei (72.1 %) and the lowest in Qatar (0.0 %).

The median country is at 14.1 %: half are above, half below.

Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.

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Source: FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture… · via World Bank WDI (AG.LND.FRST.ZS) · licence

Forest area over time

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Ranking of countries

2023

In chart
Brunei in chart	1	Brunei	72.1
Bhutan in chart	2	Bhutan	71.6
Laos in chart	3	Laos	71.5
Japan in chart	4	Japan	68.4
South Korea in chart	5	South Korea	64.1
Timor-Leste in chart	6	Timor-Leste	61.7
Malaysia in chart	7	Malaysia	57.7
North Korea in chart	8	North Korea	49.6
Indonesia in chart	9	Indonesia	47.7
Vietnam in chart	10	Vietnam	47.4
Cambodia in chart	11	Cambodia	43.1
Myanmar in chart	12	Myanmar	42.4
Nepal in chart	13	Nepal	41.6
Georgia in chart	14	Georgia	40.6
Thailand in chart	15	Thailand	38.7
Sri Lanka in chart	16	Sri Lanka	34.0
Türkiye in chart	17	Türkiye	29.5
India in chart	18	India	24.5
Philippines in chart	19	Philippines	24.5
China in chart	20	China	24.0
Singapore in chart	21	Singapore	20.9
Cyprus in chart	22	Cyprus	18.7
Bangladesh in chart	23	Bangladesh	14.5
Lebanon in chart	24	Lebanon	14.2
Azerbaijan in chart	25	Azerbaijan	14.1
Armenia in chart	26	Armenia	11.6
Mongolia in chart	27	Mongolia	9.1
Turkmenistan in chart	28	Turkmenistan	8.8
Uzbekistan in chart	29	Uzbekistan	8.5
Kyrgyzstan in chart	30	Kyrgyzstan	7.1
Iran in chart	31	Iran	6.6
Israel in chart	32	Israel	6.5
Pakistan in chart	33	Pakistan	4.7
United Arab Emirates in chart	34	United Arab Emirates	4.5
Tajikistan in chart	35	Tajikistan	3.1
Syria in chart	36	Syria	2.8
Maldives in chart	37	Maldives	2.8
Iraq in chart	38	Iraq	1.9
Afghanistan in chart	39	Afghanistan	1.9
Palestine in chart	40	Palestine	1.7
Kazakhstan in chart	41	Kazakhstan	1.3
Jordan in chart	42	Jordan	1.1
Yemen in chart	43	Yemen	1.0
Bahrain in chart	44	Bahrain	1.0
Saudi Arabia in chart	45	Saudi Arabia	0.5
Kuwait in chart	46	Kuwait	0.4
Oman in chart	47	Oman	0.0
Qatar in chart	48	Qatar	0.0

World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.FRST.ZS · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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