Forest area in Puerto Rico

Forest area in Puerto Rico: 34.3% in 1990 and 49.8% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 49.8%
Since 1990: +15.5 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 59 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 55.4% in 2010, the lowest 34.3% in 1990.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Puerto Rico	World
2024	49.8	–
2023	50.3	31.1
2022	50.9	31.1
2021	51.5	31.2
2020	52.1	31.2
2019	52.7	31.2
2018	53.3	31.3
2017	53.9	31.3
2016	54.5	31.3
2015	55	31.4
2014	55.1	31.4
2013	55.2	31.4
2012	55.3	31.5
2011	55.3	31.9
2010	55.4	32
2009	54.7	32
2008	54	32
2007	53.3	32.1
2006	52.6	32.1
2005	51.9	32.1
2004	51.2	32.2
2003	50.5	32.3
2002	49.8	32.3
2001	49.1	32.3
2000	48.4	32.4
1999	47	32.5
1998	45.6	32.5
1997	44.1	32.6
1996	42.7	32.7
1995	41.3	32.7
1994	39.9	32.8
1993	38.5	32.8
1992	37.1	33
1991	35.7	–
1990	34.3	–

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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