Papua New Guinea

Forest area in Papua New Guinea

Forest area in Papua New Guinea: 76.4% in 1990 and 75.2% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 75.2%
Since 1990: −1.3 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 10 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Papua New Guinea	World
2024	75.2	–
2023	75.2	31.1
2022	75.2	31.1
2021	75.2	31.2
2020	75.2	31.2
2019	75.2	31.2
2018	75.3	31.3
2017	75.3	31.3
2016	75.4	31.3
2015	75.4	31.4
2014	75.4	31.4
2013	75.4	31.4
2012	75.5	31.5
2011	75.5	31.9
2010	75.5	32
2009	75.5	32
2008	75.6	32
2007	75.6	32.1
2006	75.7	32.1
2005	75.7	32.1
2004	75.8	32.2
2003	75.8	32.3
2002	75.9	32.3
2001	75.9	32.3
2000	76	32.4
1999	76	32.5
1998	76.1	32.5
1997	76.1	32.6
1996	76.1	32.7
1995	76.2	32.7
1994	76.2	32.8
1993	76.3	32.8
1992	76.3	33
1991	76.4	–
1990	76.4	–

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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