Facts and figures

Forest cover

• Forest area: about 4 billion hectares (3 952 million hectares or about 40 million km²) or 30.3 percent of total land area.
• Forest area per capita: 0.62 hectares.
• More than half of the world's forest area is found in the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, USA and China, combined.
• Ten countries account for two-thirds of the global forest cover.
• Sixty-four countries had less than 10 percent of their total land area forested, mostly in North Africa, West Asia and small islands.
• American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, French Guiana, Gabon, Guyana, Palau, Pitcairn, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Suriname and Turks and Caicos Islands all have more than three quarters of their total land area forested.
• Forty-five countries have more than 50 percent of their total land area forested.