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Forest Land Per Capita

Based on a comparison of 171 countries in 2015, Suriname ranked the highest in forest land per capita with 282,202 sqm followed by Guyana and Gabon. On the other end of the scale was Bahrain with 4.45 sqm, Oman with 4.85 sqm and Malta with 8.18 sqm.

Average forest land per capita reached 5,511 sqm in 2015 in the World according to Faostat. This is 0.961% less than in the previous year and 12.9% less than 10 years ago.

Historically, average forest land per capita reached an all time high of 7,820 sqm in 1990 and an all time low of 5,511 sqm in 2015. The average annual growth amounted to -1.39% since 1990.

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Country	Unit	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Afghanistan	sqm																				487	475	464	454	444
Albania	sqm																				2,467	2,464	2,461	2,455	2,448
Algeria	sqm																				412	517	511	504	498
Angola	sqm																				30,964	29,914	28,945	28,032	27,168
Argentina	sqm																				7,406	7,083	6,956	6,834	6,716
Armenia	sqm																				897	1,117	1,119	1,119	1,120
Australia	sqm																				68,169	54,994	54,373	53,853	53,408
Austria	sqm																				4,637	4,594	4,584	4,575	4,568
Azerbaijan	sqm																				1,042	1,109	1,126	1,143	1,161
Bahamas	sqm																				14,528	14,286	14,075	13,885	13,714
Bahrain	sqm																				4.28	4.23	4.18	4.26	4.30
Bangladesh	sqm																				96.6	95.4	94.3	93.2	92.1
Belarus	sqm																				9,019	8,992	9,061	9,140	9,227
Belgium	sqm		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...										623	623	620	618	617
Belize	sqm																				46,596	45,088	43,889	42,756	41,684
Benin	sqm																				4,990	4,796	4,617	4,449	4,290
Bhutan	sqm																				45,962	37,734	37,270	36,845	36,463
Bolivia	sqm																				57,542	55,342	54,223	53,142	52,100
Bosnia and Herzegovina	sqm																				5,670	5,681	5,697	5,713	5,731
Botswana	sqm																				58,766	57,639	56,691	55,793	54,933
Brazil	sqm																				26,963	25,534	25,291	25,065	24,855
Brunei	sqm																				9,681	9,487	9,359	9,244	9,140
Bulgaria	sqm																				5,200	5,057	5,124	5,194	5,266
Burkina Faso	sqm																				3,782	3,635	3,498	3,367	3,242
Burundi	sqm																				195	274	270	267	264
Cambodia	sqm																				7,227	7,027	6,835	6,646	6,461
Cameroon	sqm																				10,016	9,657	9,319	8,997	8,690
Canada	sqm																				91,884	101,770	100,790	99,902	99,084
Cayman Islands	sqm																				2,340	2,288	2,246	2,212	2,183
Central African Republic	sqm																				53,056	51,146	50,166	49,214	48,291
Chad	sqm																				10,205	4,699	4,459	4,231	4,014
Chile	sqm																				9,530	9,464	9,562	9,664	9,770
China	sqm																				1,510	1,475	1,479	1,483	1,489
Colombia	sqm																				13,231	12,625	12,464	12,315	12,178
Comoros	sqm																				51.0	571	552	534	516
Congo	sqm																				56,126	54,505	53,057	51,729	50,497
Costa Rica	sqm																				5,612	5,579	5,569	5,563	5,561
Croatia	sqm																				4,406	4,426	4,446	4,469	4,497
Cuba	sqm																				2,512	2,599	2,650	2,703	2,757
Cyprus	sqm																				1,587	1,566	1,550	1,535	1,521
Czech Republic	sqm																				2,532	2,518	2,509	2,503	2,499
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	sqm																				2,377	2,313	2,251	2,191	2,132
Dem. Republic of the Congo	sqm																				25,534	24,784	24,082	23,414	22,776
Denmark	sqm																				981	1,058	1,063	1,069	1,076
Djibouti	sqm																				68.1	67.1	66.2	65.3	64.4
Dominican Republic	sqm																				1,995	1,814	1,825	1,838	1,851
East Timor	sqm																				7,078	6,874	6,671	6,472	6,274
Ecuador	sqm																				6,819	8,627	8,447	8,275	8,113
Egypt	sqm																				9.04	8.97	8.90	8.85	8.79
El Salvador	sqm																				471	462	452	443	434
Equatorial Guinea	sqm																				24,197	23,356	22,569	21,817	21,100
Eritrea	sqm																				2,764	2,668	2,578	2,491	2,409
Estonia	sqm																				17,069	17,204	17,272	17,343	17,419
Ethiopia	sqm																				1,466	1,412	1,381	1,352	1,325
European Union	sqm																				3,152	3,164	3,164	3,174	3,174
Fiji	sqm																				11,856	11,538	11,509	11,494	11,490
Finland	sqm																				41,462	41,392	41,264	41,169	41,099
France	sqm																				2,529	2,597	2,603	2,610	2,617
Gabon	sqm																				144,817	141,368	139,420	137,562	135,791
Gambia	sqm																				2,937	2,856	2,779	2,704	2,632
Georgia	sqm																				6,237	6,431	6,459	6,493	6,532
Germany	sqm																				1,332	1,374	1,378	1,381	1,385
Ghana	sqm																				2,134	3,790	3,720	3,657	3,599
Greece	sqm																				3,490	3,513	3,541	3,571	3,603
Guatemala	sqm																				2,654	2,595	2,509	2,426	2,347
Guinea	sqm																				6,212	6,017	5,836	5,665	5,502
Guinea Bissau	sqm																				13,102	12,744	12,400	12,063	11,735
Guyana	sqm																				194,673	210,857	209,699	208,727	207,913
Haiti	sqm																				104	102	100.0	98.0	96.0
Honduras	sqm																				7,111	6,813	6,530	6,258	5,997
Hong Kong	sqm																				0	0	0	0	...	...	...
Hungary	sqm																				2,014	2,043	2,054	2,065	2,078
Iceland	sqm																				924	1,343	1,368	1,394	1,420
India	sqm																				574	579	574	569	564
Indonesia	sqm																				4,005	3,924	3,850	3,780	3,715
Iraq	sqm																				274	266	259	252	245
Iran	sqm																				1,506	1,436	1,420	1,404	1,389
Ireland	sqm																				1,656	1,624	1,619	1,615	1,613
Israel	sqm																				212	208	207	208	209
Italy	sqm																				1,506	1,492	1,497	1,504	1,513
Ivory Coast	sqm																				5,593	5,482	5,370	5,256	5,141
Jamaica	sqm																				1,236	1,230	1,224	1,218	1,213
Japan	sqm																				1,961	1,960	1,963	1,966	1,971
Jordan	sqm																				158	151	145	139	135
Kazakhstan	sqm																				2,105	2,078	2,058	2,040	2,023
Kenya	sqm																				873	1,034	1,016	999	983
Kuwait	sqm																				21.4	20.9	20.0	19.3	18.6
Kyrgyzstan	sqm																				1,779	1,269	1,240	1,211	1,183
Laos	sqm																				25,254	27,855	27,643	27,457	27,293
Latvia	sqm																				15,824	16,044	16,195	16,322	16,435
Lebanon	sqm																				322	315	306	296	286
Lesotho	sqm																				220	219	222	225	228
Liberia	sqm																				11,407	10,937	10,548	10,212	9,912
Libya	sqm																				364	359	356	354	352
Lithuania	sqm																				6,938	7,072	7,143	7,200	7,246
Luxembourg	sqm		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...										1,742	1,707	1,681	1,659	1,642
Macao	sqm																				0	0	0	0	...	...	...
Macedonia	sqm																				4,729	4,747	4,749	4,752	4,758
Madagascar	sqm																				6,153	5,955	5,789	5,631	5,479
Malawi	sqm																				2,244	2,156	2,084	2,017	1,953
Malaysia	sqm																				7,392	7,824	7,708	7,600	7,499
Maldives	sqm																				28.2	30.7	30.2	29.6	29.2
Mali	sqm																				9,270	3,654	3,493	3,341	3,196
Malta	sqm																				7.09	8.24	8.22	8.20	8.19
Mauritania	sqm																				702	670	645	620	598
Mauritius	sqm																				285	312	312	311	311
Mexico	sqm																				5,579	5,641	5,570	5,504	5,441
Moldova	sqm																				1,058	1,080	1,104	1,128	1,152
Monaco	sqm																				0	0	0	0	...	...	...
Mongolia	sqm																				41,089	48,067	47,053	46,081	45,151
Montenegro	sqm																				8,766	13,337	13,338	13,349	13,367
Morocco	sqm																				1,637	1,793	1,769	1,744	1,720
Mozambique	sqm																				16,794	16,261	15,786	15,336	14,907
Myanmar	sqm																				6,225	6,118	5,972	5,828	5,687
Namibia	sqm																				34,356	33,456	32,577	31,699	30,835
Nepal	sqm																				1,370	1,354	1,341	1,327	1,315
Netherlands	sqm																				220	224	224	224	224
New Zealand	sqm																				19,148	23,239	23,021	22,816	22,623
Nicaragua	sqm																				5,544	5,348	5,280	5,214	5,149
Niger	sqm																				795	758	722	689	657
Nigeria	sqm																				608	566	526	488	452
Norway	sqm																				20,656	24,742	24,506	24,297	24,106
Oman	sqm																				7.51	7.14	6.62	6.05	5.53
Pakistan	sqm																				102	97.4	93.4	89.6	85.9
Palestine	sqm																				23.4	22.9	22.3	21.8	21.3
Panama	sqm																				9,024	12,776	12,534	12,306	12,090
Papua New Guinea	sqm																				43,056	48,948	47,919	46,955	46,045
Paraguay	sqm																				27,981	26,240	25,321	24,442	23,597
Peru	sqm																				23,551	25,565	25,234	24,906	24,583
Philippines	sqm																				828	732	746	759	772
Poland	sqm																				2,437	2,442	2,450	2,459	2,469
Portugal	sqm																				3,263	3,059	3,049	3,040	3,034
Puerto Rico	sqm																				1,461	1,292	1,306	1,319	1,333
Qatar	sqm																				0	0	0	0	...	...	...
Romania	sqm																				2,983	2,980	3,022	3,066	3,112
Russia	sqm																				56,304	56,757	56,890	57,088	57,337
Rwanda	sqm																				404	412	407	402	398
Saudi Arabia	sqm																				365	358	352	346	340
Senegal	sqm																				6,763	6,543	6,333	6,130	5,936
Serbia	sqm		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		...	...	...	...					2,747	2,812	2,831	2,850	2,870
Seychelles	sqm																				4,493	4,459	4,435	4,416	4,402
Sierra Leone	sqm																				4,867	4,739	4,761	4,783	4,807
Singapore	sqm																				4.63	32.2	31.5	30.9	30.4
Slovakia	sqm																				3,563	3,569	3,569	3,571	3,576
Slovenia	sqm																				6,120	6,070	6,055	6,047	6,047
Somalia	sqm																				7,274	7,002	6,738	6,481	6,231
South Africa	sqm																				1,816	1,796	1,781	1,769	1,760
South Korea	sqm																				1,293	1,284	1,277	1,270	1,264
South Sudan	sqm																				0	0	14,289	0	...	...	...
Spain	sqm																				3,933	3,951	3,934	3,927	3,928
Sri Lanka	sqm																				910	1,013	1,003	993	984
Sudan	sqm																				20,085	7,640	7,437	7,247	7,067
Suriname	sqm																				283,783	292,422	290,027	287,824	285,796
Swaziland	sqm																				4,759	4,719	4,688	4,662	4,639
Sweden	sqm																				30,292	29,921	29,737	29,580	29,443
Switzerland	sqm																				1,596	1,577	1,567	1,557	1,549
Syria	sqm																				231	228	225	225	225
Taiwan	sqm																				0	0	0	0	...	...	...
Tajikistan	sqm																				551	538	526	514	503
Tanzania	sqm																				7,752	10,655	10,268	9,897	9,543
Thailand	sqm																				2,860	2,447	2,448	2,448	2,449
Togo	sqm																				499	455	413	373	335
Trinidad and Tobago	sqm																				1,717	1,705	1,713	1,722	1,733
Tunisia	sqm																				941	931	931	932	933
Turkey	sqm																				1,574	1,553	1,549	1,546	1,544
Turkmenistan	sqm																				8,289	8,185	8,092	8,003	7,918
Uganda	sqm																				936	810	746	685	627
Ukraine	sqm																				2,092	2,073	2,092	2,112	2,135
United Arab Emirates	sqm																				410	376	357	348	345
United Kingdom	sqm																				466	493	493	494	495
USA	sqm																				9,811	9,887	9,822	9,764	9,711
Uruguay	sqm																				5,056	5,134	5,189	5,246	5,305
Uzbekistan	sqm																				1,197	1,180	1,161	1,143	1,127
Venezuela	sqm																				16,290	16,357	16,067	15,795	15,539
Vietnam	sqm																				1,548	1,587	1,588	1,590	1,593
Yemen	sqm																				247	241	236	231	226
Zambia	sqm																				38,701	37,428	36,198	34,993	33,820
Zimbabwe	sqm																				12,376	11,948	11,476	10,961	10,432
World	sqm																				5,896	5,806	5,740	5,678	5,619

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