All the facts
296 figures, each one with the year it refers to and a link to its source.
- VA, United StatesAir
Trees in Virginia's urban areas removed about 21,400 tonnes of air pollution in 2010, with human health benefits valued at $104 million.
- VA, United StatesCarbon
Trees in Virginia's urban areas store about 16.6 million tonnes of carbon and take up roughly 632,000 tonnes more each year; counting all urban and community land, storage rises to 30.9 million tonnes.
- VA, United StatesEnergy
Virginia's urban and community trees save residents about $176 million a year in building energy costs ($114 million in electricity and $61.9 million in heating).
- WA, United StatesAir
Trees in Washington's urban areas removed about 13,900 tonnes of air pollution in 2010, with human health benefits valued at $169 million.
- WA, United StatesCarbon
Trees in Washington's urban areas store about 13.8 million tonnes of carbon and take up roughly 463,000 tonnes more each year; counting all urban and community land, storage rises to 23.8 million tonnes.
- WA, United StatesEnergy
Washington's urban and community trees save residents about $87.0 million a year in building energy costs ($42.3 million in electricity and $44.7 million in heating).
- WI, United StatesAir
Trees in Wisconsin's urban areas removed about 7,000 tonnes of air pollution in 2010, with human health benefits valued at $47.7 million.
- WI, United StatesCarbon
Trees in Wisconsin's urban areas store about 9.4 million tonnes of carbon and take up roughly 275,000 tonnes more each year; counting all urban and community land, storage rises to 19.2 million tonnes.
- WI, United StatesEnergy
Wisconsin's urban and community trees save residents about $183 million a year in building energy costs ($59.7 million in electricity and $123 million in heating).
- AustraliaCanopy
Australia has about 133 million hectares of forest, 17.3% of its land area.
- BrazilCanopy
INPE's PRODES system recorded 5,731 km2 of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2024 to July 2025, 12.07% less than the 6,518 km2 of 2024.
- BrazilCanopy
Amazon deforestation fell to 3,335 km2 between August 2025 and July 2026, down 41.8% and the lowest in the series that began in 1988.
INPE, BiomasBR / PRODES, 2026
- BrazilCanopy
Cerrado deforestation fell 23.8% to 5,517 km2 in 2025/26, the lowest since monitoring began in 2001, with the Matopiba states accounting for 74.3% of it.
INPE, BiomasBR, 2026
- BrazilCanopy
Brazil's forest cover fell from 74.0% of land in 1990 to 59.3% in 2022, a loss of about 123 million hectares.
- BrazilCarbon
Brazil accounted for 42% of all tropical primary forest loss in 2024, and fires driven by its worst drought on record caused 66% of that loss, a sixfold increase from 2023.
- CanadaCanopy
Canada has 369 million hectares of forest, close to 9% of the world's total forest.
Natural Resources Canada, The State of Canada's Forests 2025, 2025
- CanadaCanopy
Over the last 34 years less than half of 1% of Canada's forest has been deforested, and harvested areas must be regenerated by planting or natural regrowth.
Natural Resources Canada, The State of Canada's Forests 2025, 2025
- CanadaCanopy
Forest covered 42.0% of Canada's land in 2022, up slightly from 40.2% in 1990.
- ChinaCanopy
China's forest cover rose from 16.7% of land in 1990 to 23.7% in 2022, about 222 million hectares.
- ChinaCanopy
China added about 65 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2022, the largest gain of any country.
- ChinaCanopy
China alone accounts for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area since 2000 despite having only 6.6% of the world's vegetated area, with 42% of its greening from forests.
- ColombiaCanopy
Colombia's primary forest loss rose nearly 50% in 2024, driven not by fire but by a 53% rise in clearing linked to illegal mining and coca after peace talks broke down.
- ColombiaCanopy
Forest covers 54.0% of Colombia, about 59.9 million hectares in 2022, down from 58.7% in 1990.
- ColombiaCanopy
Colombia lost about 5.2 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2022.
- GermanyWildlife
Mixed forests now cover 79% of Germany's forest area, broadleaf area is up 7% since 2012, and 91% of young forest comes from natural regeneration.
- GermanyWildlife
German forests hold about 29.4 m3 of deadwood per hectare, 323 million m3 in total, one-third more than ten years earlier, supporting forest biodiversity.
- GermanyCanopy
One-third of Germany is forested, 11.5 million hectares, and the forest area grew by 15,000 hectares between 2012 and 2022.
BMLEH, Bundeswaldinventur 2022 (Fourth National Forest Inventory), 2022
- GermanyCarbon
Germany's living forest trees hold 1,184 million tonnes of carbon, about 108 tonnes per hectare.
- GermanyCarbon
After the 2018-2021 drought and bark beetle outbreaks, Germany's forest became a net carbon source for the first time in decades; growing stock fell 18.2% (220 million m3) from 2017 to 2022.
- SpainCanopy
Spain's forest cover grew from 27.8% of land in 1990 to 38.1% in 2022, about 19.0 million hectares.
- SpainCanopy
Spain gained about 5.1 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2022, one of the largest increases in Europe.
- EthiopiaCanopy
Forest covers about 23.8% of Ethiopia, roughly 26.8 million hectares in 2022, down from 27.8% in 2000.
- EthiopiaCanopy
In south-western Ethiopia, forest cover rose by 15-23% between 2018 and 2025 as Green Legacy planting took hold, according to Landsat classification.
- EthiopiaCarbon
Agroforestry plots established under Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative store an average 133.7 tonnes of carbon per hectare, the highest of the land uses measured across 21 districts.
- FranceCanopy
Forest covers 17.7 million hectares, or 32% of mainland France and Corsica.
IGN, Inventaire forestier national, La surface forestière, 2025
- FranceCanopy
France's forest has doubled since 1840, from 8.9 million hectares to 17.7 million, growing about 89,000 hectares a year (0.6% a year) over the last 40 years.
- FranceCanopy
France's Fonds forestier national planted two million hectares of forest between 1947 and 1999.
- United KingdomCanopy
The UK had 3.28 million hectares of woodland at 31 March 2024, 13.5% of its land area.
- United KingdomCanopy
About 20,660 hectares of new woodland were created in the UK in 2023/24.
- United KingdomCanopy
Woodland covers 10% of England, 15% of Wales, 19% of Scotland and 9% of Northern Ireland, and 43% of UK woodland is certified as sustainably managed.
Forest Research, Forestry Statistics (Woodland Area and Planting chapter), 2020
- United KingdomCanopy
Forest cover in the United Kingdom rose from 11.5% of land in 1990 to 13.4% in 2022.
- IndonesiaCanopy
Indonesia's forest cover fell from 64.2% of land in 1990 to 50.6% in 2022, about 95.7 million hectares.
- IndonesiaCanopy
Indonesia lost about 20.6 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2022.
- IndonesiaCarbon
Indonesia has the largest mangrove cover in the world, storing about 3.14 billion tonnes of carbon, roughly 33% of all carbon held in coastal ecosystems globally.
- IrelandCanopy
Ireland's forest cover rose from 6.7% of land in 1990 to 11.8% in 2022, one of the lowest shares in Europe.
- IrelandCanopy
Ireland's forest area grew from about 462,000 hectares in 1990 to 809,000 hectares in 2022.
- IndiaCanopy
Forest covers 24.4% of India, about 72.5 million hectares in 2022, up from 21.5% in 1990.
- IndiaCanopy
India's forest area grew by about 8.5 million hectares between 1990 and 2022.
- IndiaCanopy
Satellite data for 2000-2017 show India among the world's two leading greening countries, though 82% of its greening came from croplands and only 4.4% from forests.
Chen et al. 2019, Nature Sustainability, 'China and India lead in greening of the world', 2019
- ItalyCanopy
Italy's forest cover rose from 25.8% of land in 1990 to 31.7% in 2022, about 9.4 million hectares.
- ItalyCanopy
Italy's forests expanded by about 1.8 million hectares between 1990 and 2022, largely through natural regrowth on abandoned farmland.
- KenyaCanopy
Kenya aims to raise national tree cover from 13% to 30% by 2032, with an interim goal of 21.03% in five years.
- KenyaCanopy
Kenya's forest cover stands at 8.83%, with a national target of 10% forest cover by 2030.
- KenyaCanopy
By the FAO forest definition, forest covers about 6.4% of Kenya, roughly 3.7 million hectares in 2022.
- MexicoCanopy
Forest covers 34.3% of Mexico, about 66.6 million hectares in 2022, down from 36.9% in 1990.
- MexicoWater
Mexico had 877,464 hectares of mangroves in 2025, present in all 17 coastal states, with the largest area in Quintana Roo.
- MexicoWater
Mexico holds about 6% of the world's mangroves, the fourth-largest share after Indonesia, Australia and Brazil.
- NigeriaCanopy
Nigeria's forest cover fell from 23.7% of land in 1990 to 19.2% in 2022, about 17.5 million hectares.
- NigeriaCanopy
Nigeria lost about 4.1 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2022.
- NetherlandsCanopy
Forest covers about 10.9% of the Netherlands, roughly 368,000 hectares in 2022, up from 10.2% in 1990.