American Samoa
Forest area in American Samoa
Forest area in American Samoa: 90.4% in 1990 and 79.7% in 2024, by FAO estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 79.7%
- Since 1990
- −10.7 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 8 of 209
- counting from the highest
% of land · FAO
What the numbers say
- The highest was 90.4% in 1990, the lowest 79.3% in 2015.
Every year
% of land · FAO
| Year | American Samoa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 79.7 | – |
| 2023 | 79.7 | 31.1 |
| 2022 | 79.3 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 79.3 | 31.2 |
| 2020 | 79.3 | 31.2 |
| 2019 | 79.3 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 79.3 | 31.3 |
| 2017 | 79.3 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 79.3 | 31.3 |
| 2015 | 79.3 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 79.6 | 31.4 |
| 2013 | 80 | 31.4 |
| 2012 | 80.3 | 31.5 |
| 2011 | 80.6 | 31.9 |
| 2010 | 81 | 32 |
| 2009 | 81.7 | 32 |
| 2008 | 82.5 | 32 |
| 2007 | 83.3 | 32.1 |
| 2006 | 84.1 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 84.8 | 32.1 |
| 2004 | 85.6 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 86.4 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 87.1 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 87.9 | 32.3 |
| 2000 | 88.7 | 32.4 |
| 1999 | 88.8 | 32.5 |
| 1998 | 89 | 32.5 |
| 1997 | 89.2 | 32.6 |
| 1996 | 89.4 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 89.5 | 32.7 |
| 1994 | 89.7 | 32.8 |
| 1993 | 89.9 | 32.8 |
| 1992 | 90 | 33 |
| 1991 | 90.2 | – |
| 1990 | 90.4 | – |
Good to know
- 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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American Samoa in numbers
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