Mangrove Area

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: mangrove-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Mangrove Area: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	118	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	118	0
Mangrove area (hectares)mangrove_area_haHeadline	The headline figure: Mangrove forest area (hectares).	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.52Nauru3,146,543.55Indonesiamiddle 8,927.08	118	0
Lower bound, 95% interval (hectares)lower_95_haMeasure	The lower end of the 95% confidence interval around the mangrove area, in hectares.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.49Nauru2,934,771.85Indonesiamiddle 8,326.26	118	0
Upper bound, 95% interval (hectares)upper_95_haMeasure	The upper end of the 95% confidence interval around the mangrove area, in hectares.	Number · up to 16 decimals	0.57Nauru3,448,602.00Indonesiamiddle 9,784.05	118	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 41 years.

The same 118 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 107 places this site covers

Global Mangrove Watch (Aberystwyth University gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAndorraArgentinaArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelarusBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBulgariaBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCanadaCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsChileCroatiaCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaEswatiniEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceGeorgiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandHong KongHungaryIcelandIraqIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJordanKazakhstanKosovoKyrgyzstanLaosLatviaLebanonLesothoLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalawiMaliMaltaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratMoroccoNamibiaNepalNetherlandsNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorwayPalestineParaguayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaRwandaSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTajikistanTunisiaTürkiyeTurkmenistanUgandaUkraineUnited KingdomUruguayUzbekistanVatican CityZambiaZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   Global Mangrove Watch (Aberystwyth University, JAXA, soloEO, Wetlands International, The Nature Conservancy)

   globalmangrovewatch.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Global Mangrove Watch v4.1.12 — mangrove extent by country, 2025

   21346457

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   41 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as mangrove-area-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/mangrove-area

From Global Mangrove Watch’s own country table, published on Zenodo. The areas include a small downward correction the team applied after checking its maps against reference points. Overseas territories it reports separately are left out rather than added to another country.

• Charted

  Mangrove Area by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

  • CO₂ Emissions per CapitaGlobal Carbon Project · 75 held · 1950–2024
  • Ecological FootprintGlobal Footprint Network · 65 held · 1961–2025
  • Water StressFAO · 24 held · 2000–2023