Forest area in Brazil

Forest area in Brazil: 74% in 1990 and 58.6% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 58.6%
Since 1990: −15.4 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 34 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Brazil	World
2024	58.6	–
2023	58.9	31.1
2022	59.3	31.1
2021	59.7	31.2
2020	60.1	31.2
2019	60.4	31.2
2018	60.7	31.3
2017	61.1	31.3
2016	61.4	31.3
2015	61.7	31.4
2014	61.9	31.4
2013	62.1	31.4
2012	62.4	31.5
2011	62.6	31.9
2010	62.8	32
2009	63.3	32
2008	63.7	32
2007	64.1	32.1
2006	64.5	32.1
2005	65	32.1
2004	65.4	32.2
2003	65.8	32.3
2002	66.2	32.3
2001	66.7	32.3
2000	67.1	32.4
1999	67.8	32.5
1998	68.5	32.5
1997	69.2	32.6
1996	69.9	32.7
1995	70.5	32.7
1994	71.2	32.8
1993	71.9	32.8
1992	72.6	33
1991	73.3	–
1990	74	–

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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