A ranking of the 15 greenest countries in the world has been compiled.
Russia topped the ranking of countries with the largest forest area in 2025. The country has 832.6 million hectares of forest. Brazil and Canada are next. More than half of all forests in the world are in five countries.
The list of the 15 greenest countries in the world has been compiled. The Our World in Data platform, based on data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has published the indicators of the countries with the largest forest area by 2025.
According to these data, Russia ranks first in the world with 832.6 million hectares of forest area. This figure is almost a fifth of the total forest area on the planet, or 20.1 percent.
Brazil is in second place, with a forest area of 486.1 million hectares. Canada has 368.8 million hectares of forest.
The next places are occupied by the USA (308.9 million hectares) and China (227.2 million hectares).
The countries with the largest forest areas are also: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (139.2 million hectares), Australia (133.6 million hectares), Indonesia (96 million hectares), India (72.7 million hectares) and Peru (67.2 million hectares).
Mexico (66.3 million hectares), Angola (63.3 million hectares), Colombia (59.5 million hectares), Bolivia (54.4 million hectares) and Venezuela (47.1 million hectares) are next on the list.
The vastness of Russia's forest area is due to the country's geographical location. Most of it consists of the vast boreal, or taiga, forests that stretch across Siberia.
According to FAO, the total area of the world's forests exceeds 4 billion hectares, and they cover 32% of the planet's land area. Russia, Brazil, Canada, the USA and China account for more than half of the world's forests.