Bhutan
Forest area in Bhutan
Forest area in Bhutan: 53.7% in 1990 and 70.4% in 2024, by FAO estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 70.4%
- Since 1990
- +16.7 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 18 of 209
- counting from the highest
% of land · FAO
What the numbers say
- The highest was 71.2% in 2020, the lowest 53.7% in 1990.
Every year
% of land · FAO
| Year | Bhutan | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 70.4 | – |
| 2023 | 70.6 | 31.1 |
| 2022 | 70.8 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 71 | 31.2 |
| 2020 | 71.2 | 31.2 |
| 2019 | 71.2 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 71.2 | 31.3 |
| 2017 | 71.2 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 71.2 | 31.3 |
| 2015 | 71.2 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 71.2 | 31.4 |
| 2013 | 71.1 | 31.4 |
| 2012 | 71.1 | 31.5 |
| 2011 | 71 | 31.9 |
| 2010 | 71 | 32 |
| 2009 | 70.7 | 32 |
| 2008 | 70.5 | 32 |
| 2007 | 70.2 | 32.1 |
| 2006 | 69.9 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 69.7 | 32.1 |
| 2004 | 69.4 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 66.2 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 66 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 65.7 | 32.3 |
| 2000 | 65.5 | 32.4 |
| 1999 | 65.2 | 32.5 |
| 1998 | 65 | 32.5 |
| 1997 | 64.7 | 32.6 |
| 1996 | 64.5 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 64.2 | 32.7 |
| 1994 | 64 | 32.8 |
| 1993 | 54.3 | 32.8 |
| 1992 | 54.1 | 33 |
| 1991 | 53.9 | – |
| 1990 | 53.7 | – |
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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