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Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020

2020, as FAO’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020 covers 180 countries. Saudi Arabia is highest, at 100.00; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 16.95. Against 2015, 83 values changed (63 up, 20 down), 9 countries joined.

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Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas · Data for 2020

HighestSaudi Arabia

100.00

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 180 countries · select a heading to sort

Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia100.00
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia99.74
VenezuelaVENSouth America78.11
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa69.57
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia69.47
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe59.48
UgandaUGAEastern Africa57.44
NepalNPLSouthern Asia57.25
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia54.48
BelizeBLZCentral America54.46
GuineaGINWestern Africa54.38
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa53.61
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe53.20
GuatemalaGTMCentral America50.29
KenyaKENEastern Africa49.66
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa48.33
PanamaPANCentral America46.71
RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.80
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe45.47
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa43.62
HungaryHUNEastern Europe42.47
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia41.28
BurundiBDIEastern Africa41.12
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia40.67
SpainESPSouthern Europe40.18

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Saudi Arabia100.00
  2. Uzbekistan99.74
  3. Venezuela78.11
  4. Zambia69.57
  5. Sri Lanka69.47

Lowest

  1. Omanshared0.00
  2. Comorosshared0.00
  3. Mauritania0.31
  4. Vanuatu0.33
  5. Somalia0.59

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.95. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2020

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −0countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 171 in both
  • 63 · 20rose · fell
  • 88unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Costa Rica+ Fiji+ Honduras+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Nicaragua+ Paraguay+ Solomon Islands+ Timor-Leste+ Tuvalu

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2020.

  • 176 distinct values among 180

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 22.18. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 180 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2020). Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/protected-forest/2020

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07Questions

Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest protected forest in Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020?

Saudi Arabia, at 100.00, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020 cover?

180.

Where can I download Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas, 2025.

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