Forest area in Sri Lanka

Forest area in Sri Lanka: 37.8% in 1990 and 34.4% in 2024, by FAO estimates.

Latest, 2024: 34.4%
Since 1990: −3.4 percentage points
Rank, 2024: 98 of 209; counting from the highest

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% of land · FAO

Estimates, FAOWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 37.8% in 1990, the lowest 33.6% in 2014.

Every year

% of land · FAO

Year	Sri Lanka	World
2024	34.4	–
2023	34.4	31.1
2022	34.5	31.1
2021	34.6	31.2
2020	34.7	31.2
2019	34.5	31.2
2018	34.4	31.3
2017	34.2	31.3
2016	34.1	31.3
2015	33.9	31.4
2014	33.6	31.4
2013	33.8	31.4
2012	34	31.5
2011	34.2	31.9
2010	34.4	32
2009	34.5	32
2008	34.6	32
2007	34.7	32.1
2006	34.9	32.1
2005	35	32.1
2004	35.1	32.2
2003	35.2	32.3
2002	35.3	32.3
2001	35.5	32.3
2000	35.6	32.4
1999	35.8	32.5
1998	36	32.5
1997	36.2	32.6
1996	36.5	32.7
1995	36.7	32.7
1994	36.9	32.8
1993	37.1	32.8
1992	37.4	33
1991	37.6	–
1990	37.8	–

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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