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Mountain Green Cover Index by country

Mountain Green Cover Index.

Countries reporting
185
Highest
100.0%
Guam
Lowest
0.1%
Western Sahara
Median
94.9%
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
1,110

What the numbers show

Mountain Green Cover Index is currently reported for 185 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Guam; the lowest is 0.1% in Western Sahara.

The median across all reporting countries is 94.9%, and the mean is 83.9%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,111.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 160 fell. The largest increase was in Western Sahara (up 125.0%), and the largest decrease in Niger (down 13.6%).

Mountain Green Cover Index: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Guam 100.0% 2021 unchanged flat
2 Suriname 100.0% 2021 down 0.0% flat
2 French Guiana 100.0% 2021 unchanged flat
4 Brunei 99.9% 2021 down 0.0% flat
5 Cook Islands 99.9% 2021 unchanged flat
6 Samoa 99.9% 2021 unchanged flat
7 Isle of Man 99.8% 2021 unchanged flat
8 Guyana 99.8% 2021 down 0.1% flat
9 Senegal 99.8% 2021 down 0.2% flat
10 Fiji 99.7% 2021 unchanged flat
11 Falkland Islands 99.7% 2021 down 0.2% flat
12 South Sudan 99.7% 2021 down 0.1% flat
13 Bangladesh 99.7% 2021 down 0.2% flat
14 Christmas Island 99.6% 2021 unchanged flat
15 Brazil 99.4% 2021 down 0.0% flat
16 Cambodia 99.4% 2021 down 0.3% flat
17 Micronesia (country) 99.3% 2021 unchanged flat
18 Solomon Islands 99.3% 2021 down 0.4% flat
19 Belize 99.2% 2021 down 0.1% flat
19 Gabon 99.2% 2021 down 0.1% flat
21 Liberia 99.2% 2021 down 0.3% flat
22 Papua New Guinea 99.1% 2021 down 0.3% flat
23 Sierra Leone 99.1% 2021 down 0.4% flat
24 Madagascar 99.0% 2021 down 0.3% flat
25 Central African Republic 99.0% 2021 down 0.1% flat
26 Equatorial Guinea 98.9% 2021 down 0.4% flat
27 Guinea 98.8% 2021 down 0.3% flat
28 American Samoa 98.8% 2021 unchanged flat
29 Vanuatu 98.8% 2021 down 0.3% flat
30 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 98.6% 2021 down 0.3% flat
31 Panama 98.6% 2021 down 0.4% flat
32 Congo 98.6% 2021 down 0.6% flat
33 Mozambique 98.4% 2021 down 0.3% flat
34 Myanmar 98.4% 2021 down 0.6% flat
35 Nigeria 98.2% 2021 down 0.5% flat
36 Laos 98.2% 2021 down 0.8% flat
37 Trinidad and Tobago 98.0% 2021 down 0.3% flat
38 Zambia 98.0% 2021 down 0.2% flat
39 Benin 98.0% 2021 down 0.9% flat
40 Australia 98.0% 2021 down 0.2% flat
40 Cote d'Ivoire 98.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
42 Lesotho 98.0% 2021 down 0.4% flat
42 Venezuela 98.0% 2021 down 0.3% flat
44 Malaysia 97.9% 2021 down 0.7% flat
45 Russia 97.9% 2021 down 0.2% flat
46 New Caledonia 97.9% 2021 down 0.4% flat
47 Paraguay 97.8% 2021 down 0.9% flat
48 Philippines 97.7% 2021 down 0.8% flat
49 Northern Mariana Islands 97.7% 2021 unchanged flat
49 North Korea 97.7% 2021 down 0.5% flat
49 Zimbabwe 97.7% 2021 down 0.4% flat
52 Nicaragua 97.6% 2021 down 0.7% flat
52 Guadeloupe 97.6% 2021 down 0.2% flat
54 Cuba 97.5% 2021 down 0.2% flat
55 Indonesia 97.5% 2021 down 0.7% flat
56 Thailand 97.3% 2021 down 0.6% flat
57 Serbia 97.2% 2021 down 0.2% flat
58 Hungary 97.1% 2021 down 0.1% flat
58 Togo 97.1% 2021 down 0.7% flat
60 Tanzania 97.0% 2021 down 0.7% flat
61 Comoros 96.9% 2021 down 0.7% flat
62 Saint Lucia 96.7% 2021 down 0.5% flat
62 Vietnam 96.7% 2021 down 1.4% flat
64 Grenada 96.7% 2021 down 0.3% flat
65 Democratic Republic of Congo 96.6% 2021 down 0.3% flat
66 Croatia 96.5% 2021 down 0.1% flat
67 Burkina Faso 96.5% 2021 down 1.6% flat
68 Cameroon 96.4% 2021 down 0.5% flat
69 Ghana 96.4% 2021 down 0.6% flat
69 Mexico 96.4% 2021 down 0.6% flat
71 Angola 96.4% 2021 down 1.0% flat
72 Romania 96.3% 2021 down 0.1% flat
73 Colombia 96.3% 2021 down 1.1% flat
74 Dominican Republic 96.3% 2021 down 0.7% flat
75 French Polynesia 96.3% 2021 unchanged flat
76 Kazakhstan 96.1% 2021 down 0.3% flat
77 Bosnia and Herzegovina 96.0% 2021 down 0.3% flat
78 Cape Verde 96.0% 2021 down 0.1% flat
78 Luxembourg 96.0% 2021 unchanged flat
80 Slovenia 95.9% 2021 down 0.2% flat
81 North Macedonia 95.8% 2021 down 0.2% flat
82 Slovakia 95.6% 2021 down 0.1% flat
83 Cyprus 95.6% 2021 down 0.6% flat
84 Haiti 95.6% 2021 down 1.1% flat
85 Bulgaria 95.4% 2021 down 0.1% flat
86 Honduras 95.3% 2021 down 1.3% flat
87 Spain 95.2% 2021 down 0.2% flat
88 Czechia 95.2% 2021 down 0.1% flat
88 Hong Kong 95.2% 2021 down 0.4% flat
90 Martinique 95.1% 2021 down 0.7% flat
91 Ethiopia 95.1% 2021 down 1.1% flat
92 Iraq 95.0% 2021 down 1.1% flat
93 Portugal 94.9% 2021 up 0.0% flat
93 East Timor 94.9% 2021 down 1.4% flat
95 Botswana 94.7% 2021 down 0.9% flat
96 New Zealand 94.7% 2021 down 0.6% flat
97 Azerbaijan 94.5% 2021 down 0.9% flat
98 Uganda 94.5% 2021 down 1.2% flat
99 Uruguay 94.4% 2021 down 0.9% flat
100 Belgium 94.3% 2021 down 0.1% flat
101 Kenya 94.0% 2021 down 0.9% flat
102 Armenia 94.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
103 Greece 94.0% 2021 down 0.4% flat
104 Ecuador 93.8% 2021 down 1.2% flat
105 Bhutan 93.7% 2021 down 1.0% flat
106 Eswatini 93.2% 2021 down 1.2% flat
107 Costa Rica 93.0% 2021 down 0.9% flat
108 Georgia 93.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
108 Poland 93.0% 2021 down 0.4% flat
110 Ukraine 92.8% 2021 down 0.7% flat
111 Mali 92.4% 2021 down 2.8% flat
112 Moldova 92.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
113 Mayotte 91.1% 2021 down 1.3% flat
114 South Korea 91.0% 2021 down 1.7% flat
115 India 90.9% 2021 down 1.2% flat
116 United Kingdom 90.8% 2021 down 0.4% flat
117 United States 90.7% 2021 down 0.4% flat
118 Guatemala 90.6% 2021 down 2.3% flat
119 Ireland 90.6% 2021 down 0.2% flat
120 Malawi 90.3% 2021 down 1.9% flat
121 Faroe Islands 90.2% 2021 up 0.1% flat
122 Uzbekistan 90.0% 2021 down 1.8% flat
123 Burundi 89.7% 2021 down 1.9% flat
124 South Africa 89.6% 2021 down 0.2% flat
125 France 89.5% 2021 down 0.1% flat
126 Albania 89.2% 2021 down 0.4% flat
127 Andorra 89.2% 2021 down 0.4% flat
128 Japan 89.1% 2021 down 0.6% flat
129 British Virgin Islands 88.8% 2021 unchanged flat
130 Jamaica 88.6% 2021 down 1.0% flat
131 Montenegro 88.2% 2021 down 0.2% flat
132 Italy 87.9% 2021 down 1.6% falling
133 Sri Lanka 87.3% 2021 down 4.5% falling
134 El Salvador 87.0% 2021 down 2.8% flat
135 Turkmenistan 86.8% 2021 down 2.3% flat
136 Peru 86.1% 2021 down 0.7% flat
137 Austria 85.1% 2021 down 0.3% flat
138 Nepal 83.1% 2021 down 2.6% flat
139 Montserrat 82.7% 2021 down 9.0% falling
140 Puerto Rico 82.5% 2021 down 0.9% flat
141 Bolivia 82.3% 2021 down 0.3% flat
142 San Marino 82.2% 2021 unchanged falling
143 Rwanda 81.2% 2021 down 4.2% falling
144 Lebanon 81.1% 2021 down 5.0% falling
145 Mauritius 80.5% 2021 down 0.5% flat
146 Mongolia 80.3% 2021 down 0.1% flat
147 Kyrgyzstan 80.3% 2021 down 0.4% flat
148 Liechtenstein 79.4% 2021 down 1.2% flat
149 Sweden 78.1% 2021 up 0.5% flat
150 Tunisia 74.6% 2021 down 2.9% flat
151 Finland 73.8% 2021 up 1.4% rising
152 Barbados 72.0% 2021 down 1.1% falling
153 Switzerland 71.7% 2021 down 0.4% flat
154 Somalia 70.9% 2021 down 3.1% flat
155 China 70.7% 2021 down 2.0% flat
156 Palestine 67.2% 2021 down 7.5% falling
157 Eritrea 63.0% 2021 down 2.1% flat
158 Syria 57.6% 2021 up 4.2% flat
159 Morocco 56.3% 2021 down 1.8% flat
160 Afghanistan 55.4% 2021 down 0.6% flat
161 Namibia 55.1% 2021 down 2.8% flat
162 Tajikistan 49.9% 2021 down 1.3% flat
163 Iran 48.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
164 Chile 46.7% 2021 down 0.6% flat
165 Yemen 44.9% 2021 down 1.8% flat
166 Pakistan 43.7% 2021 down 1.5% flat
167 Djibouti 40.7% 2021 down 11.0% falling
168 Saint Helena 39.9% 2021 down 1.2% flat
169 Algeria 39.3% 2021 down 3.1% flat
170 United States Virgin Islands 37.3% 2021 down 1.9% falling
171 Reunion 35.6% 2021 down 0.8% flat
172 Wallis and Futuna 35.3% 2021 unchanged flat
173 Iceland 34.9% 2021 down 0.1% flat
174 Sudan 34.0% 2021 down 0.6% flat
175 Tonga 33.7% 2021 unchanged flat
176 Jordan 26.5% 2021 down 8.2% falling
177 Chad 18.9% 2021 up 0.9% flat
178 Oman 14.6% 2021 down 3.6% flat
179 Mauritania 12.3% 2021 down 12.2% falling
180 Saudi Arabia 10.2% 2021 down 6.0% falling
181 Libya 10.1% 2021 up 0.4% flat
182 Niger 6.0% 2021 down 13.6% falling
183 United Arab Emirates 1.4% 2021 up 7.1% rising
184 Egypt 0.1% 2021 down 7.1% falling
185 Western Sahara 0.1% 2021 up 125.0% volatile

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Indicator
Mountain Green Cover Index
Unit
%
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
185 places, 1,110 data points, 2000–2021
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Mountain Green Cover Index.