Countries with the Most Forest Cover 2021
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Forest Cover 2021Suriname (94.60), Micronesia (92.07) and Gabon (91.27) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 94.60 down to 64.31, a spread of 30.29. Only 2.53 separates Suriname from Micronesia in second, 2.7% of the leading figure. Suriname stood at 94.68 in 2020, so its figure fell by 0.08 over the year. Suriname also came first in 2020. Of the 20 in this table that also reported in 2020, 3 recorded a higher figure than the year before and 11 a lower one. The largest single move was Liberia, from 79.08 to 78.77. The chart shows the twenty highest of 214 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Key Findings
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2021 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Forest Area (% of Land)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2021.
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