British Virgin Islands

Forest area in British Virgin Islands

Forest area in British Virgin Islands: 66.7% in 1990 and 66% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 66%
Since 1990: −0.6 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 22 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 66.7% in 1990, the lowest 66% in 2022.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	British Virgin Islands	World
2024	66	–
2023	66	31.1
2022	66	31.1
2021	66.5	31.2
2020	66.5	31.2
2019	66.5	31.2
2018	66.5	31.3
2017	66.5	31.3
2016	66.5	31.3
2015	66.5	31.4
2014	66.5	31.4
2013	66.5	31.4
2012	66.5	31.5
2011	66.5	31.9
2010	66.5	32
2009	66.5	32
2008	66.5	32
2007	66.5	32.1
2006	66.5	32.1
2005	66.6	32.1
2004	66.6	32.2
2003	66.6	32.3
2002	66.6	32.3
2001	66.6	32.3
2000	66.6	32.4
1999	66.6	32.5
1998	66.6	32.5
1997	66.6	32.6
1996	66.6	32.7
1995	66.7	32.7
1994	66.7	32.8
1993	66.7	32.8
1992	66.7	33
1991	66.7	–
1990	66.7	–

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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