Tree cover loss weighted by permanency

Not all tree cover loss is the same. Depending on what drives tree cover loss, forests have different likelihoods of regrowing in the short to medium term. With some drivers, such as urbanization and commodity driven deforestation, deforestation is typically permanent. With others, such as wildfires and forestry operations, tree cover typically starts recovering almost immediately after being lost. This indicator quantifies “lasting” tree cover loss by partially discounting losses that are likely to be transient and/or more difficult for governments to control (e.g., losses due to wildfires).

country rank Score 10y ∆
Armenia 1 99.3 7.1
Azerbaijan 2 98.3 4.7
Georgia 3 97.4 1.2
Nepal 4 91.7 1.5
Bhutan 5 90.1 3.4
Taiwan 6 88.5 -0.4
Bosnia and Herzegovina 7 88.4 -0.5
Saint Lucia 8 85.5 8.3
Maldives 9 84.5 5.5
Guyana 10 84.4 -3.5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 11 83.9 4.6
Bulgaria 12 80.3 -1.4
Gabon 13 80.2 2.0
Vanuatu 14 79.6 -8.8
Montenegro 15 79.2 2.6
Central African Republic 16 78.7 -0.3
Suriname 17 78.4 -4.9
Serbia 18 78.0 -4.9
Japan 19 76.4 -6.0
Grenada 20 76.2 12.5
Fiji 21 72.8 -4.2
Trinidad and Tobago 22 72.5 17.0
Switzerland 23 72.3 -12.4
Comoros 24 72.1 27.9
Romania 24 72.1 1.0
Albania 26 71.7 7.5
Ethiopia 27 71.3 6.7
North Macedonia 28 71.1 0.5
Venezuela 29 69.7 -2.6
Croatia 30 69.4 -10.0
El Salvador 31 67.6 5.1
Slovenia 31 67.6 -12.8
Cuba 33 66.6 -2.3
Ecuador 34 66.5 2.5
Timor-Leste 35 66.1 -2.3
China 36 66.0 1.2
Canada 37 65.9 1.6
Sri Lanka 38 65.4 1.2
France 39 65.3 -2.1
Brunei Darussalam 40 65.1 11.1
Lesotho 41 64.8 -12.3
Papua New Guinea 42 64.7 -8.1
Dominica 43 64.3 -21.3
Jamaica 43 64.3 4.9
Netherlands 45 64.1 -6.9
Costa Rica 46 64.0 1.8
Republic of Congo 46 64.0 -6.6
India 48 63.6 -7.9
Russia 49 63.1 -5.5
Chile 50 62.1 11.9
South Korea 51 62.0 -10.2
Italy 52 61.3 -15.5
Greece 53 60.7 -13.9
Slovakia 54 60.1 3.9
Cyprus 55 60.0 -24.6
Equatorial Guinea 56 59.8 3.7
Antigua and Barbuda 57 59.0 -16.9
Peru 58 57.0 -5.1
Gambia 59 55.4 13.9
Austria 60 53.4 -15.2
Turkiye 60 53.4 -18.5
Norway 62 53.3 -14.4
Ukraine 63 53.1 -5.4
Haiti 64 52.6 -1.0
Colombia 65 52.1 -11.1
New Zealand 66 52.0 -1.3
Luxembourg 67 51.0 -4.9
Burundi 68 50.7 -10.6
United States of America 69 49.9 1.6
Philippines 70 49.2 2.5
Angola 71 49.1 -7.6
Eswatini 71 49.1 10.7
Panama 73 48.3 -11.4
Barbados 74 47.6 10.0
Belgium 75 47.5 -0.9
Mexico 75 47.5 -9.2
Hungary 77 47.4 -5.5
Cameroon 78 46.6 -16.1
Denmark 79 45.9 -5.7
Lebanon 80 45.7 -26.3
United Kingdom 81 45.6 1.9
Poland 82 45.3 -9.7
Zimbabwe 83 45.1 4.5
Solomon Islands 84 44.9 -11.1
Belarus 85 44.5 -17.3
Argentina 86 44.2 21.9
Spain 87 42.2 -10.9
Tanzania 88 40.0 -0.5
Dominican Republic 89 39.9 -3.0
Thailand 90 39.8 -1.6
Rwanda 91 39.6 -12.3
Dem. Rep. Congo 92 39.0 -11.9
Lithuania 93 38.6 -6.3
Zambia 94 37.5 -10.1
Germany 95 37.1 -32.3
Brazil 96 37.0 -8.5
Sweden 97 33.3 -10.1
Mozambique 98 32.5 -9.0
Myanmar 99 32.0 -8.1
Indonesia 100 31.8 14.6
Finland 101 31.6 -14.0
Bangladesh 102 31.2 -29.0
Uganda 103 29.7 -10.9
Guatemala 104 29.5 -4.6
Benin 105 28.9 -3.1
Belize 106 28.6 3.5
Senegal 106 28.6 -15.4
Latvia 108 26.5 -9.8
Malawi 109 26.4 -10.2
Estonia 110 25.9 -17.8
Honduras 111 25.5 -15.4
Nicaragua 112 25.2 -0.1
Togo 112 25.2 -32.2
Bolivia 114 24.4 -19.5
Nigeria 114 24.4 -22.7
Australia 116 20.1 -42.9
Singapore 117 18.7 -22.6
Paraguay 118 18.0 15.8
Guinea-Bissau 119 17.3 -13.3
Czech Republic 120 17.1 -40.6
Viet Nam 121 15.6 -3.6
Malaysia 122 14.5 13.9
Cote d'Ivoire 123 11.4 -10.7
Portugal 123 11.4 -3.6
Madagascar 125 11.3 -6.0
Ghana 126 8.5 -22.1
Liberia 127 6.0 -21.1
Cambodia 128 5.9 5.9
Guinea 129 5.0 -28.8
Laos 130 2.0 -19.1
Sierra Leone 131 0.0 -15.6
Afghanistan
Algeria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Chad
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Iceland
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Micronesia
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Namibia
Niger
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Seychelles
South Africa
Sudan
Tajikistan
Tonga
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Uzbekistan