Forest area in North America

33 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: % of land area. World ranking →

First in the ranking
76.4 %
Dominica
Median country
42.1 %
half above, half below
Range
0.0 to 76.4
Greenland - Dominica

How to read it

Across 33 countries in North America, the highest value is in Dominica (76.4 %) and the lowest in Greenland (0.0 %).

The median country is at 42.1 %: 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

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Dominica76.4
2Saint Vincent and the Grenadines73.4
3British Virgin Islands66.0
4Panama62.2
5Costa Rica59.1
6United States Virgin Islands58.9
7Belize58.0
8Jamaica56.5
9Saint Lucia53.8
10Cayman Islands53.0
11Honduras52.8
12Grenada51.5
13Bahamas50.9
14Puerto Rico49.7
15Dominican Republic46.7
16Trinidad and Tobago44.2
17Saint Kitts and Nevis42.1
18Canada42.0
19Cuba34.9
20Mexico34.2
21United States33.8
22Guatemala33.1
23El Salvador33.0
24Saint-Martin23.4
25Antigua and Barbuda17.9
26Barbados14.6
27Bermuda14.4
28Haiti13.5
29Turks and Caicos Islands11.1
30Sint Maarten8.8
31Aruba2.7
32Curaçao0.2
33Greenland0.0
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