Suriname and Guyana retain over 80% of their land under forest cover. Across 210 countries with 2023 data, Suriname tops the table for forest coverage at 94.4%, while Greenland sits at the bottom on 0%.

The top 10

1. Suriname — 94.4%
2. Micronesia, Fed. Sts. — 92.2%
3. Gabon — 91.2%
4. Palau — 90.5%
5. Solomon Islands — 90.1%
6. Guyana — 87.1%
7. Equatorial Guinea — 86.4%
8. American Samoa — 85.2%
9. Papua New Guinea — 79%
10. Liberia — 78.1%

At the other end of the table

• Greenland — 0%
• Oman — 0.01%
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 0.05%

What the numbers show

The global average sits at about 32.2%, with 105 of 210 countries above it and a median of 31.2%. Suriname reports roughly 176,209× the figure of Greenland — a reminder of how unevenly forest cover is spread.

Explore the complete, sortable ranking on the Forest Coverage by country map, or test your instincts in the daily map-guessing game. Data: World Bank Open Data, 2023.