Eritrea
Forest area in Eritrea
Forest area in Eritrea: 16.2% in 1993 and 12% in 2024, by FAO estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 12%
- Since 1993
- −4.2 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 156 of 209
- counting from the highest
% of land · FAO
Every year
% of land · FAO
| Year | Eritrea | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 | – |
| 2023 | 12 | 31.1 |
| 2022 | 12.1 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 12.1 | 31.2 |
| 2020 | 12.2 | 31.2 |
| 2019 | 12.2 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 12.3 | 31.3 |
| 2017 | 12.3 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 12.4 | 31.3 |
| 2015 | 12.4 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 12.5 | 31.4 |
| 2013 | 12.5 | 31.4 |
| 2012 | 12.6 | 31.5 |
| 2011 | 12.6 | 31.9 |
| 2010 | 12.7 | 32 |
| 2009 | 12.7 | 32 |
| 2008 | 12.8 | 32 |
| 2007 | 12.8 | 32.1 |
| 2006 | 12.9 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 12.9 | 32.1 |
| 2004 | 13 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 15.6 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 15.6 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 15.7 | 32.3 |
| 2000 | 15.8 | 32.4 |
| 1999 | 15.8 | 32.5 |
| 1998 | 15.9 | 32.5 |
| 1997 | 15.9 | 32.6 |
| 1996 | 16 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 16.1 | 32.7 |
| 1994 | 16.1 | 32.8 |
| 1993 | 16.2 | 32.8 |
| 1992 | – | 33 |
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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Eritrea in numbers
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- Military spending20.87% of GDP in 2003
- Military spending per person$75 in 2003
- Military share of state spending46.4% of government spending in 2003
- Armed forces personnel202,000 people in 2020
- National power0.31% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers13.29% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports4 million TIV in 2007
- Arms exports0 TIV in 2006