Costa Rica vs Panama: Forest area

Forest area in 2024: 59.1% in Costa Rica and 62.3% in Panama, by FAO estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Panama, by 3.2 percentage points, or 1.05 times that in Costa Rica.

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% of land · FAO

Costa RicaPanamaWorld

What the numbers say

Panama has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1990.
In 2024, Costa Rica ranked 32 and Panama ranked 26 of 209 countries, counting from the highest.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Costa Rica	Panama	World
2024	59.1	62.3	–
2023	59	62.3	31.1
2022	58.9	62.3	31.1
2021	58.9	62.4	31.2
2020	58.2	62.4	31.2
2019	58.1	62.5	31.2
2018	58.1	62.5	31.3
2017	58	62.6	31.3
2016	57.9	62.6	31.3
2015	57.9	62.7	31.4
2014	57.6	62.8	31.4
2013	57.3	62.7	31.4
2012	57	62.7	31.5
2011	56.7	62.8	31.9
2010	56.4	62.9	32
2009	56.4	63.1	32
2008	56.3	63.2	32
2007	56.2	63.4	32.1
2006	56.2	63.5	32.1
2005	56.1	63.7	32.1
2004	56.1	63.8	32.2
2003	56	64	32.3
2002	55.9	64.1	32.3
2001	55.9	64.3	32.3
2000	55.8	64.4	32.4
1999	55.6	64.7	32.5
1998	55.4	64.9	32.5
1997	55.3	65.1	32.6
1996	55.1	65.3	32.7
1995	54.9	65.6	32.7
1994	54.7	65.8	32.8
1993	54.6	66	32.8
1992	54.4	66.2	33
1991	54.2	66.4	–
1990	54	66.7	–

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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