Infographic: Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025

Key Takeaways

Russia has 833 million hectares of forest, about 20% of the entire world’s forests.
Brazil (486M ha) and Canada (369M ha) rank second and third respectively.
With the U.S. (309M ha) and China (227M ha), just five countries have half of the world’s forests.

Forest landscapes shape climates, absorb carbon, and support millions of species. The visualization ranks the countries with the largest forests in 2025, revealing how woodland is distributed across the planet.

Data for this visualization comes from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), released this October.