Tree Cover Loss

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: tree-cover-loss-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Tree Cover Loss: 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	—	210	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	210	0
Tree cover loss (hectares, >30% canopy)tree_cover_lossHeadline	The headline figure: Tree cover loss (hectares, where canopy cover exceeded 30% in 2000).	Number · up to 18 decimals	0.00027 share it6,225,187.103Canadamiddle 3,774.621	184	0
Tree cover in 2000 (hectares, >30% canopy)tree_cover_2000Measure	Area where tree canopy covered more than 30% of the ground in 2000, in hectares — the base the year's loss is measured within.	Number · up to 17 decimals	0.09 share it761,226,509.4Russiamiddle 1,245,965.5	202	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 25 years.

The same 210 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 15 places this site covers

World Resources Institute — Global Forest Watch (data: University of Maryland) 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.

American SamoaChannel IslandsCook IslandsFrench PolynesiaGreenlandGuamHong KongMacauMarshall IslandsNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsSamoaSomalilandTongaVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Resources Institute — Global Forest Watch (data: University of Maryland)

   globalforestwatch.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Tree Cover Loss 2025

   v20260407

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

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

4. 4 · Stored as

   25 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as tree-cover-loss-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/tree-cover-loss

From Global Forest Watch, run by the World Resources Institute, using the University of Maryland's tree cover loss data at the 30% canopy threshold its website uses. Disputed areas that the world boundary map draws separately are not counted in any country.

• Charted

  Tree Cover Loss by country

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

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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