Forest cover: 56 sourced records

What this topic measures

Forest cover is measured as a percentage of land area, rather than total surface area. The unit is %. This topic uses ratio scoring: a value half the target and a value twice the target are equally far away, so think in multiplicative bands rather than fixed steps.

A record is a named row in the frozen catalog, not necessarily a unique entity. Some topics contain several records with the same value, and a name round accepts any record at the closest distance. The table below is the complete answer set for this topic; there is no hidden shortlist.

All 56 records

Every row links to the original source used for that record. Values are rounded for display only; the scoring engine uses the stored source value. The snapshot date and unit are part of the topic’s definition, so a current live figure may differ.

The table has 56 rows, one for each accepted record. It does not list every alias or spelling variant; the game’s name matcher handles those at answer time. If two records share a value, both remain separate rows.

The range and the gaps

The 56 records run from 0.6% to 74.2%. The median is 31.9%, with a middle half from 18.4% to 44.4%. The largest adjacent gap is 5.6% between Sweden and Finland. Every record has a distinct value in this snapshot.

The highest listed records are Finland (74.2%), Sweden (68.6%), Japan (68.4%). The lowest are Iceland (0.6%), Algeria (0.7%), Saudi Arabia (1.3%). Use these as anchors before you make a ratio or year estimate; the table below gives every value.

What the table does not tell you

These are single snapshot values in % for 2023 World Bank snapshot · 56 selected countries. The table is not a time series, a range of typical values or a measure of uncertainty. A source can round, revise or use a different definition in a later release; the game uses the stored snapshot for every score. Read the source and the record label before treating a value as a current live measurement.

How to estimate this topic

Forest cover is a percentage of land area, not total forest area. A small country can be heavily forested while a large country has more forest in absolute terms. Use 10%, 30% and 60% bands and read the scope before comparing two records.

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Source, licence and snapshot

The listed source is World Bank · World Development Indicators ↗. Snapshot: 2026-10-24. Licence / attribution: CC BY 4.0.

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