Forest area in Burkina Faso

Forest area in Burkina Faso: 30.3% in 1990 and 12.3% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 12.3%
Since 1990: −18.1 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 153 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Burkina Faso	World
2024	12.3	–
2023	12.7	31.1
2022	13.2	31.1
2021	13.6	31.2
2020	14	31.2
2019	14.5	31.2
2018	14.9	31.3
2017	15.3	31.3
2016	15.8	31.3
2015	16.2	31.4
2014	16.7	31.4
2013	17.1	31.4
2012	17.5	31.5
2011	18	31.9
2010	18.4	32
2009	18.9	32
2008	19.4	32
2007	19.9	32.1
2006	20.4	32.1
2005	20.9	32.1
2004	21.4	32.2
2003	21.8	32.3
2002	22.3	32.3
2001	22.8	32.3
2000	23.3	32.4
1999	24	32.5
1998	24.7	32.5
1997	25.4	32.6
1996	26.1	32.7
1995	26.8	32.7
1994	27.5	32.8
1993	28.2	32.8
1992	28.9	33
1991	29.6	–
1990	30.3	–

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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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