Zambia
Forest area in Zambia
Forest area in Zambia: 63.8% in 1990 and 60.5% in 2024, by FAO estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 60.5%
- Since 1990
- −3.3 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 31 of 209
- counting from the highest
% of land · FAO
Every year
% of land · FAO
| Year | Zambia | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 60.5 | – |
| 2023 | 60.6 | 31.1 |
| 2022 | 60.8 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 60.9 | 31.2 |
| 2020 | 61 | 31.2 |
| 2019 | 61.1 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 61.2 | 31.3 |
| 2017 | 61.3 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 61.4 | 31.3 |
| 2015 | 61.6 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 61.8 | 31.4 |
| 2013 | 62.1 | 31.4 |
| 2012 | 62.3 | 31.5 |
| 2011 | 62.6 | 31.9 |
| 2010 | 62.8 | 32 |
| 2009 | 62.9 | 32 |
| 2008 | 62.9 | 32 |
| 2007 | 63 | 32.1 |
| 2006 | 63 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 63.1 | 32.1 |
| 2004 | 63.1 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 63.2 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 63.2 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 63.3 | 32.3 |
| 2000 | 63.3 | 32.4 |
| 1999 | 63.3 | 32.5 |
| 1998 | 63.4 | 32.5 |
| 1997 | 63.4 | 32.6 |
| 1996 | 63.5 | 32.7 |
| 1995 | 63.5 | 32.7 |
| 1994 | 63.6 | 32.8 |
| 1993 | 63.6 | 32.8 |
| 1992 | 63.7 | 33 |
| 1991 | 63.7 | – |
| 1990 | 63.8 | – |
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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Zambia in numbers
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Military
- Military spending1.26% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$343M in 2025
- Military spending per person$19 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel16,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.24% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports1 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1990