Australia vs Canada: Forest area

Forest area in 2024: 17.4% in Australia and 42% in Canada, by FAO estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Canada, by 24.6 percentage points, or 2.42 times that in Australia.

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% of land · FAO

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What the numbers say

Canada has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1990.
In 2024, Australia ranked 137 and Canada ranked 74 of 209 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Australia	Canada	World
2024	17.4	42	–
2023	17.4	42	31.1
2022	17.3	42	31.1
2021	17.3	42	31.2
2020	17.3	41.1	31.2
2019	17.3	41.1	31.2
2018	17.3	41.1	31.3
2017	17.3	41.1	31.3
2016	17.3	41.1	31.3
2015	17.3	41.1	31.4
2014	17.2	41	31.4
2013	17.2	40.9	31.4
2012	17.1	40.9	31.5
2011	17.1	40.8	31.9
2010	17.1	40.8	32
2009	17.1	40.7	32
2008	17.1	40.6	32
2007	17.1	40.6	32.1
2006	17.2	40.5	32.1
2005	17.2	40.5	32.1
2004	17.2	40.4	32.2
2003	17.2	40.4	32.3
2002	17.3	40.3	32.3
2001	17.3	40.2	32.3
2000	17.3	40.2	32.4
1999	17.3	40.2	32.5
1998	17.3	40.2	32.5
1997	17.4	40.2	32.6
1996	17.4	40.2	32.7
1995	17.4	40.2	32.7
1994	17.4	40.2	32.8
1993	17.5	40.2	32.8
1992	17.5	40.2	33
1991	17.5	40.2	–
1990	17.5	40.2	–

Each country on its own

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The share of land under trees at least 5 metres tall, natural or planted, leaving out orchards and city parks.
Source: FAO, via the World Bank.
Ranks count the 209 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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