Data · Energy & environment
Forest area (% of land area): Vietnam, 1990–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 47.1 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- AG.LND.FRST.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Forest area (% of land area) is the share of total land area that is under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2024 (35 years of data). It moved from 28.8 to 47.1 %, a change of 63.6%. The highest value was 47.1 in 2024 and the lowest 28.8 in 1990. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 47.1 |
| 2023 | 47.0 |
| 2022 | 47.0 |
| 2021 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 46.8 |
| 2019 | 46.4 |
| 2018 | 46.0 |
| 2017 | 45.7 |
| 2016 | 45.3 |
| 2015 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 44.4 |
| 2013 | 44.1 |
| 2012 | 43.6 |
| 2011 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 42.7 |
| 2009 | 42.3 |
| 2008 | 41.8 |
| 2007 | 41.3 |
| 2006 | 40.8 |
| 2005 | 40.2 |
| 2004 | 40.1 |
| 2003 | 39.6 |
| 2002 | 39.0 |
| 2001 | 38.4 |
| 2000 | 37.9 |
| 1999 | 35.5 |
| 1998 | 34.7 |
| 1997 | 34.0 |
| 1996 | 33.2 |
| 1995 | 32.5 |
| 1994 | 31.8 |
| 1993 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 30.3 |
| 1991 | 29.5 |
| 1990 | 28.8 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 47.1 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 38.7 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 50.7 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 57.7 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 24.8 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 21.8 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 37.6 |
| Laos | 2024 | 56.6 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 42.0 |
| China | 2024 | 24.0 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Forest area (% of land area), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ag_lnd_frst_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.