Intact Forest Landscape Loss

Intact forest landscapes are large and pristine mosaics of forests and naturally treeless ecosystems and play a disproportionate role storing carbon, harboring biodiversity, and providing many other ecosystem services. This indicator measures annual losses of tree cover in these critical expanses of pristine forests relative to their extent in 2001.

country rank Score 10y ∆
Japan 1 98.0 5.7
Vanuatu 2 94.6 18.0
Finland 3 93.2 11.5
India 4 90.4 0.9
Bhutan 5 87.6 14.8
New Zealand 6 87.0 17.5
Thailand 7 85.2 14.4
Georgia 8 84.0 -5.4
Costa Rica 9 83.8 -6.4
Chile 10 83.6 36.7
Sweden 10 83.6 10.2
Dominican Republic 12 82.1 19.1
Gabon 13 81.2 7.1
Ecuador 14 78.5 -8.6
Cambodia 15 77.6 19.0
Guyana 16 74.6 -1.8
Tanzania 17 73.6 33.1
China 18 73.2 -7.7
Norway 19 72.9 -7.6
Viet Nam 20 71.4 -3.4
Cameroon 21 69.9 -8.1
Venezuela 22 69.6 -14.2
Equatorial Guinea 23 68.9 5.4
Liberia 24 68.4 -7.6
Nepal 25 67.8 3.7
Panama 26 66.0 -5.5
Cuba 27 65.5 -30.0
Republic of Congo 28 64.4 -5.3
Suriname 29 63.4 -14.0
Ethiopia 30 63.3 17.5
Indonesia 31 60.9 0.9
Central African Republic 32 59.6 -19.8
Papua New Guinea 33 59.1 -8.8
Myanmar 34 56.7 -4.4
Belize 35 56.3 -6.7
Malaysia 36 55.9 24.6
Peru 37 53.9 -10.2
Colombia 38 52.7 -29.8
Argentina 39 51.3 6.2
Brunei Darussalam 40 51.1 8.2
Angola 41 49.3 13.1
Dem. Rep. Congo 42 45.8 -15.4
Mexico 43 45.1 -21.7
Romania 44 44.1 -4.2
Brazil 45 40.2 -19.4
Philippines 46 36.3 -30.6
Uganda 47 35.5 11.8
Guatemala 48 32.2 -36.4
Canada 49 29.2 7.4
Cote d'Ivoire 50 27.2 9.1
Laos 51 25.7 -5.6
Nigeria 51 25.7 -35.6
Bolivia 53 23.6 -19.6
Solomon Islands 54 23.3 -17.7
Madagascar 55 20.6 -11.7
Russia 56 18.2 -4.9
United States of America 57 18.1 -7.2
Paraguay 58 9.2 9.2
Nicaragua 59 5.7 -19.6
Australia 60 0.0 -20.1
Honduras 60 0.0 -25.3
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