Suriname and Guyana retain over 80% of their land under forest cover. Across 210 countries with 2023 data, Suriname tops the table for forest coverage (94.4 % of land area), while Greenland sits at the bottom (0).

The top 10

1. Suriname — 94.4
2. Micronesia, Fed. Sts. — 92.2
3. Gabon — 91.2
4. Palau — 90.5
5. Solomon Islands — 90.1
6. Guyana — 87.1
7. Equatorial Guinea — 86.4
8. American Samoa — 85.2
9. Papua New Guinea — 79
10. Liberia — 78.1

At the other end of the table

• Greenland — 0
• Oman — 0.01
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 0.05

What the numbers show

The global average sits at about 32.2 % of land area, with 105 of 210 countries above it. The median country (31.2) trails the leader by a wide margin. The top country reports roughly 176,209× the figure of the lowest — a reminder of how unevenly forest coverage is distributed.

Explore the complete, sortable ranking on the Forest Coverage by country map, or test your instincts in the daily map-guessing game. Data: World Bank Open Data, 2023.