Forest area in El Salvador

Forest area in El Salvador: 35.5% in 1990 and 33% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 33%
Since 1990: −2.5 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 105 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 35.5% in 1990, the lowest 32.6% in 2010.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	El Salvador	World
2024	33	–
2023	33	31.1
2022	32.9	31.1
2021	32.9	31.2
2020	32.9	31.2
2019	32.8	31.2
2018	32.8	31.3
2017	32.7	31.3
2016	32.7	31.3
2015	32.7	31.4
2014	32.7	31.4
2013	32.6	31.4
2012	32.6	31.5
2011	32.6	31.9
2010	32.6	32
2009	32.8	32
2008	32.9	32
2007	33.1	32.1
2006	33.2	32.1
2005	33.4	32.1
2004	33.5	32.2
2003	33.6	32.3
2002	33.8	32.3
2001	33.9	32.3
2000	34.1	32.4
1999	34.2	32.5
1998	34.4	32.5
1997	34.5	32.6
1996	34.6	32.7
1995	34.8	32.7
1994	34.9	32.8
1993	35.1	32.8
1992	35.2	33
1991	35.4	–
1990	35.5	–

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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