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Forest area in North America

34 countries in North America, 2023. Unit: % of land area. World ranking →

First in the ranking

73.2 %

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Median country

34.0 %

half above, half below

World

31.1 %

World Bank aggregate

Range

0.0 to 73.2

Greenland - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

How to read it

Across 34 countries in North America, the highest value is in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (73.2 %) and the lowest in Greenland (0.0 %).

The median country is at 34.0 %: 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
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in chart	1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	73.2
Dominica in chart	2	Dominica	63.8
Costa Rica in chart	3	Costa Rica	60.4
United States Virgin Islands in chart	4	United States Virgin Islands	58.2
Panama in chart	5	Panama	56.3
Honduras in chart	6	Honduras	56.3
Jamaica in chart	7	Jamaica	56.2
Puerto Rico in chart	8	Puerto Rico	56.1
Belize in chart	9	Belize	54.5
Cayman Islands in chart	10	Cayman Islands	52.5
Grenada in chart	11	Grenada	52.1
Bahamas in chart	12	Bahamas	50.9
Dominican Republic in chart	13	Dominican Republic	45.0
Trinidad and Tobago in chart	14	Trinidad and Tobago	44.2
Saint Kitts and Nevis in chart	15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.3
Canada in chart	16	Canada	39.5
Saint Lucia in chart	17	Saint Lucia	34.0
United States in chart	18	United States	33.9
Mexico in chart	19	Mexico	33.6
Guatemala in chart	20	Guatemala	32.6
Cuba in chart	21	Cuba	31.2
El Salvador in chart	22	El Salvador	27.5
Nicaragua in chart	23	Nicaragua	25.8
Saint-Martin in chart	24	Saint-Martin	24.8
British Virgin Islands in chart	25	British Virgin Islands	24.1
Bermuda in chart	26	Bermuda	18.5
Antigua and Barbuda in chart	27	Antigua and Barbuda	18.0
Barbados in chart	28	Barbados	14.7
Haiti in chart	29	Haiti	12.3
Turks and Caicos Islands in chart	30	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.1
Sint Maarten in chart	31	Sint Maarten	10.9
Aruba in chart	32	Aruba	2.3
Curaçao in chart	33	Curaçao	0.2
Greenland in chart	34	Greenland	0.0

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

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