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Mangrove area (square kilometres) by country

Countries reporting
117
Highest
29,534 kmsq
Indonesia
Lowest
0.0108 kmsq
Saint Martin (French Part)
Median
111.77 kmsq
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
1,553

What the numbers show

Mangrove area (square kilometres) is currently reported for 117 countries. The highest value is 29,534 kmsq in Indonesia; the lowest is 0.0108 kmsq in Saint Martin (French Part).

The median across all reporting countries is 111.77 kmsq, and the mean is 1,378 kmsq.

Over the past decade 45 countries rose and 63 fell. The largest increase was in Togo (up 20.9%), and the largest decrease in Bahrain (down 25.5%).

Mangrove area: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Indonesia 29,534 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% falling
2 Brazil 11,415 kmsq 2020 up 0.8% flat
3 Australia and New Zealand 10,467 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% flat
4 Australia 10,171 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% flat
5 Mexico 10,055 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
6 Nigeria 8,442 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
7 Melanesia 5,889 kmsq 2020 down 0.6% flat
8 Myanmar 5,435 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% falling
9 Malaysia 5,246 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
10 Papua New Guinea 4,525 kmsq 2020 down 1.0% flat
11 Bangladesh 4,484 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
12 India 4,038 kmsq 2020 up 0.3% flat
13 Cuba 3,597 kmsq 2020 down 1.8% falling
14 Mozambique 3,027 kmsq 2020 down 2.4% flat
15 Philippines 2,848 kmsq 2020 up 1.3% flat
16 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,847 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
17 Colombia 2,808 kmsq 2020 up 0.3% flat
18 Madagascar 2,776 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
19 Guinea-Bissau 2,688 kmsq 2020 down 0.8% flat
20 Thailand 2,528 kmsq 2020 up 1.9% flat
21 Guinea 2,211 kmsq 2020 down 1.9% flat
22 Cameroon 1,970 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
23 Viet Nam 1,871 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
24 Gabon 1,747 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
25 Bahamas 1,541 kmsq 2020 up 2.0% falling
26 Panama 1,536 kmsq 2020 down 1.7% flat
27 Ecuador 1,535 kmsq 2020 up 1.4% flat
28 Sierra Leone 1,529 kmsq 2020 down 3.4% flat
29 Senegal 1,270 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
30 United Republic of Tanzania 1,108 kmsq 2020 down 0.8% flat
31 Pakistan 827.89 kmsq 2020 down 7.6% falling
32 Suriname 800.44 kmsq 2020 up 1.5% rising
33 Nicaragua 747.31 kmsq 2020 down 3.5% flat
34 French Guiana 629.7 kmsq 2020 up 4.9% rising
35 Cambodia 626.92 kmsq 2020 up 1.0% flat
36 Gambia 609.72 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
37 Honduras 605.64 kmsq 2020 down 5.1% flat
38 Kenya 544.29 kmsq 2020 up 0.0% flat
39 Belize 528.69 kmsq 2020 up 0.8% flat
40 Solomon Islands 526.51 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
41 Fiji 488.14 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
42 El Salvador 373.06 kmsq 2020 down 1.5% flat
43 Costa Rica 371.11 kmsq 2020 down 3.0% flat
44 New Caledonia 334.13 kmsq 2020 up 3.3% flat
45 New Zealand 296.08 kmsq 2020 down 1.3% flat
46 Guyana 288.59 kmsq 2020 down 3.9% falling
47 Angola 283.57 kmsq 2020 down 1.7% flat
48 Equatorial Guinea 255.94 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
49 Guatemala 249.65 kmsq 2020 up 1.0% flat
50 Democratic Republic of the Congo 236.84 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
51 China 215.81 kmsq 2020 up 2.1% falling
52 Sri Lanka 198.74 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% falling
53 Dominican Republic 191.84 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
54 Liberia 183.37 kmsq 2020 down 2.8% flat
55 Ghana 179.52 kmsq 2020 up 2.0% rising
56 Turks and Caicos Islands 164.66 kmsq 2020 up 14.2% falling
57 Haiti 154.01 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% falling
58 Brunei Darussalam 114.97 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
59 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 111.77 kmsq 2020 down 2.5% falling
60 Jamaica 99.45 kmsq 2020 down 6.3% falling
61 Puerto Rico 82.84 kmsq 2020 down 3.9% flat
62 Trinidad and Tobago 82.23 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% flat
63 Eritrea 77.91 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% falling
64 Saudi Arabia 77.1 kmsq 2020 down 17.5% falling
65 Micronesia 59.19 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% flat
66 Palau 56.88 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% flat
67 Peru 54.94 kmsq 2020 up 4.8% flat
68 Côte d'Ivoire 54.48 kmsq 2020 down 5.6% falling
69 Cayman Islands 44.88 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
70 Somalia 35.15 kmsq 2020 down 1.5% flat
71 Guadeloupe 34.2 kmsq 2020 down 0.3% flat
72 Benin 28.77 kmsq 2020 up 6.5% rising
73 Congo 20.11 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
74 Martinique 19.41 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
75 Vanuatu 15.84 kmsq 2020 down 3.2% flat
76 Yemen 15.51 kmsq 2020 down 6.2% falling
77 Polynesia 14.74 kmsq 2020 down 1.8% flat
78 Timor-Leste 10.5 kmsq 2020 up 0.9% flat
79 Tonga 10.43 kmsq 2020 down 2.4% flat
80 Japan 10.31 kmsq 2020 up 1.2% flat
81 Sudan 9.39 kmsq 2020 down 14.0% falling
82 Antigua and Barbuda 8.69 kmsq 2020 up 2.6% rising
83 Djibouti 7.5 kmsq 2020 up 9.6% falling
84 Singapore 7.3 kmsq 2020 down 5.8% falling
85 Mayotte 6.76 kmsq 2020 down 2.0% flat
86 Qatar 4.54 kmsq 2020 up 5.7% rising
87 Mauritius 4.32 kmsq 2020 up 1.1% falling
88 Seychelles 3.83 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
89 Mauritania 3.44 kmsq 2020 up 15.8% flat
90 United States Virgin Islands 2.62 kmsq 2020 up 1.4% flat
91 Samoa 2.32 kmsq 2020 down 2.7% flat
92 Egypt 2.24 kmsq 2020 up 10.9% falling
93 Grenada 1.93 kmsq 2020 down 0.3% flat
94 Saint Lucia 1.62 kmsq 2020 up 0.0% flat
95 Kiribati 1.46 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
96 Oman 1.44 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% falling
97 French Polynesia 1.25 kmsq 2020 up 4.6% flat
98 British Virgin Islands 0.9738 kmsq 2020 up 7.3% rising
99 Comoros 0.9694 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
100 Bahrain 0.597 kmsq 2020 down 25.5% falling
101 Guam 0.5221 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
102 Togo 0.496 kmsq 2020 up 20.9% falling
103 Sao Tome and Principe 0.4839 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
104 Aruba 0.4594 kmsq 2020 up 1.6% falling
105 Curaçao 0.4444 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
106 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3455 kmsq 2020 down 0.6% flat
107 Marshall Islands 0.3255 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
108 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.3252 kmsq 2020 up 2.4% flat
109 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.2936 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
110 Bermuda 0.2094 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
111 Barbados 0.1063 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% flat
112 Tuvalu 0.0891 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
113 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.0538 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
114 Anguilla 0.037 kmsq 2020 down 7.0% rising
115 Cook Islands 0.0327 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
116 Dominica 0.0143 kmsq 2020 up 19.4% rising
117 Saint Martin (French Part) 0.0108 kmsq 2020 down 17.5% flat

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Mangrove area (square kilometres)
Unit
kmsq
Source
United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database
Licence
UN SDG Global Database (open, attribution requested)
Coverage
142 places, 1,553 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed