Turkmenistan's forest area (sq. km) was 23,300 in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is unchanged at from 23,300 in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 23,300 | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 23,300 | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 23,300 | 2015 |
| Highest | 23,300 | 1992 |
| Lowest | 23,300 | 1992 |
| Average since 2016 | 23,300 | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 23,300 | 1992 |
What the numbers say
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Turkmenistan had the 101st highest value of the 209 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Turkmenistan | 23,300 | 2025 |
| World | 40.35 million | 2023 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 10.59 million | 2023 |
| Upper middle income | 12.98 million | 2023 |
Closest to Turkmenistan in the 2025 ranking
- Sierra Leone — 98th of 209: 24,363
- Equatorial Guinea — 99th of 209: 24,066
- Uganda — 100th of 209: 23,677
- Dominican Republic — 102nd of 209: 22,575
- Lithuania — 103rd of 209: 22,163
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 104th of 209: 21,621
What this measures
Forest area is land 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.
Limitations: The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has been collecting and analyzing data on forest area since 1946. This is done at intervals of 5-10 years as part of the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA). FAO reports data for 229 countries and territories; for the remaining 56 small island states and territories where no information is provided, a report is prepared by FAO using existing information and a literature search. The data are aggregated at sub-regional, regional and global levels by the FRA team at FAO, and estimates are produced by straight summation.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 34 values
| Year | Forest area (sq. km) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,300 |
| 2024 | 23,300 |
| 2023 | 23,300 |
| 2022 | 23,300 |
| 2021 | 23,300 |
| 2020 | 23,300 |
| 2019 | 23,300 |
| 2018 | 23,300 |
| 2017 | 23,300 |
| 2016 | 23,300 |
| 2015 |
Forest area (sq. km) in nearby economies
- Albania — 9,410 (2025)
- Andorra — 182.2 (2025)
- Armenia — 3,341 (2025)
- Austria — 39,039 (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 12,137 (2025)
- Belarus — 89,754 (2025)
- Belgium — 6,705 (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 21,621 (2025)
- Bulgaria — 39,590 (2025)
- Channel Islands — 10.2 (2021)
- Croatia — 19,462 (2025)
- Cyprus — 1,717 (2025)
More environment data for Turkmenistan
- Population in largest city — 941,130 (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 26.22% (2025)
- Rural population — 4.03 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 52.89% (2025)
- Urban population — 3.59 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 47.11% (2025)
- Rural population growth (annual %) — 1.61% (2025)
- Urban population growth (annual %) — 1.68% (2025)
- Agricultural land (sq. km) — 396,267 (2024)
- Surface area (sq. km) — 491,209 (2024)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Turkmenistan's forest area (sq. km)?
- 23,300 in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1992?
- It is unchanged at from 23,300 in 1992. The highest value was 23,300 in 1992 and the lowest 23,300 in 1992.
- How does Turkmenistan rank?
- 101st highest of 209 economies with data for 2025.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator AG.LND.FRST.K2, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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