The 15 Countries With the Most Forest in 2025, Ranked

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Forests are among the planet’s most important natural resources, storing carbon, supporting biodiversity, and supplying everything from timber to clean water. But forest cover is distributed unevenly around the world, with a small number of countries accounting for a large share of the global total.Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), compiled by Visual Capitalist, shows which countries had the largest forest areas in 2025. Russia ranked first, with about 833 million hectares of forest, while Brazil followed with 486 million hectares.The 15 Countries With the Most Forest in 2025Together, the 15 countries in the ranking account for nearly three-quarters of the world's forest area. Eight are in the Americas, while the five largest forest countries—Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States and China—account for more than half of the global total.1.