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Mangrove area (square kilometres) by country

Countries reporting
126
Highest
29,534 kmsq
Indonesia
Lowest
0.0108 kmsq
Saint Martin (French Part)
Median
105.61 kmsq
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
1,619

What the numbers show

Mangrove area (square kilometres) is currently reported for 126 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 105.61 kmsq, and the mean is 1,363 kmsq.

Over the past decade 48 countries rose and 68 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 Caribbean 6,029 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% falling
8 Melanesia 5,889 kmsq 2020 down 0.6% flat
9 Myanmar 5,435 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% falling
10 Malaysia 5,246 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
11 Papua New Guinea 4,525 kmsq 2020 down 1.0% flat
12 Bangladesh 4,484 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
13 India 4,038 kmsq 2020 up 0.3% flat
14 Cuba 3,597 kmsq 2020 down 1.8% falling
15 Mozambique 3,027 kmsq 2020 down 2.4% flat
16 Philippines 2,848 kmsq 2020 up 1.3% flat
17 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,847 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
18 Colombia 2,808 kmsq 2020 up 0.3% flat
19 Madagascar 2,776 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
20 Guinea-Bissau 2,688 kmsq 2020 down 0.8% flat
21 Thailand 2,528 kmsq 2020 up 1.9% flat
22 United States 2,329 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
23 Guinea 2,211 kmsq 2020 down 1.9% flat
24 Cameroon 1,970 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
25 Vietnam 1,871 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
25 Viet Nam 1,871 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
27 Gabon 1,747 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
28 Bahamas 1,541 kmsq 2020 up 2.0% falling
29 Panama 1,536 kmsq 2020 down 1.7% flat
30 Ecuador 1,535 kmsq 2020 up 1.4% flat
31 Sierra Leone 1,529 kmsq 2020 down 3.4% flat
32 Senegal 1,270 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
33 United Republic of Tanzania 1,108 kmsq 2020 down 0.8% flat
34 Pakistan 827.89 kmsq 2020 down 7.6% falling
35 Suriname 800.44 kmsq 2020 up 1.5% rising
36 Nicaragua 747.31 kmsq 2020 down 3.5% flat
37 French Guiana 629.7 kmsq 2020 up 4.9% rising
38 Cambodia 626.92 kmsq 2020 up 1.0% flat
39 Gambia 609.72 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% flat
40 Honduras 605.64 kmsq 2020 down 5.1% flat
41 Kenya 544.29 kmsq 2020 up 0.0% flat
42 Belize 528.69 kmsq 2020 up 0.8% flat
43 Solomon Islands 526.51 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
44 Fiji 488.14 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
45 El Salvador 373.06 kmsq 2020 down 1.5% flat
46 Costa Rica 371.11 kmsq 2020 down 3.0% flat
47 New Caledonia 334.13 kmsq 2020 up 3.3% flat
48 New Zealand 296.08 kmsq 2020 down 1.3% flat
49 Guyana 288.59 kmsq 2020 down 3.9% falling
50 Angola 283.57 kmsq 2020 down 1.7% flat
51 Equatorial Guinea 255.94 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
52 Guatemala 249.65 kmsq 2020 up 1.0% flat
53 Democratic Republic of the Congo 236.84 kmsq 2020 up 0.2% flat
54 China 215.81 kmsq 2020 up 2.1% falling
55 Sri Lanka 198.74 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% falling
56 Dominican Republic 191.84 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
57 Liberia 183.37 kmsq 2020 down 2.8% flat
58 Ghana 179.52 kmsq 2020 up 2.0% rising
59 Turks and Caicos Islands 164.66 kmsq 2020 up 14.2% falling
60 Haiti 154.01 kmsq 2020 down 0.7% falling
61 Brunei 114.97 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
61 Brunei Darussalam 114.97 kmsq 2020 up 0.1% flat
63 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 111.77 kmsq 2020 down 2.5% falling
64 Jamaica 99.45 kmsq 2020 down 6.3% falling
65 Puerto Rico 82.84 kmsq 2020 down 3.9% flat
66 Trinidad and Tobago 82.23 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% flat
67 Eritrea 77.91 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% falling
68 Saudi Arabia 77.1 kmsq 2020 down 17.5% falling
69 Micronesia 59.19 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% flat
70 Palau 56.88 kmsq 2020 down 0.2% flat
71 Peru 54.94 kmsq 2020 up 4.8% flat
72 Cote d'Ivoire 54.48 kmsq 2020 down 5.6% falling
72 Côte d'Ivoire 54.48 kmsq 2020 down 5.6% falling
74 Cayman Islands 44.88 kmsq 2020 down 0.5% flat
75 Somalia 35.15 kmsq 2020 down 1.5% flat
76 Guadeloupe 34.2 kmsq 2020 down 0.3% flat
77 Benin 28.77 kmsq 2020 up 6.5% rising
78 South Africa 26.43 kmsq 2020 up 1.2% flat
79 Congo 20.11 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
80 Martinique 19.41 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
81 Vanuatu 15.84 kmsq 2020 down 3.2% flat
82 Yemen 15.51 kmsq 2020 down 6.2% falling
83 Polynesia 14.74 kmsq 2020 down 1.8% flat
84 East Timor 10.5 kmsq 2020 up 0.9% flat
84 Timor-Leste 10.5 kmsq 2020 up 0.9% flat
86 Tonga 10.43 kmsq 2020 down 2.4% flat
87 Japan 10.31 kmsq 2020 up 1.2% flat
88 Sudan 9.39 kmsq 2020 down 14.0% falling
89 Antigua and Barbuda 8.69 kmsq 2020 up 2.6% rising
90 Djibouti 7.5 kmsq 2020 up 9.6% falling
91 Singapore 7.3 kmsq 2020 down 5.8% falling
92 Mayotte 6.76 kmsq 2020 down 2.0% flat
93 Qatar 4.54 kmsq 2020 up 5.7% rising
94 Mauritius 4.32 kmsq 2020 up 1.1% falling
95 Seychelles 3.83 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
96 Mauritania 3.44 kmsq 2020 up 15.8% flat
97 United States Virgin Islands 2.62 kmsq 2020 up 1.4% flat
98 Samoa 2.32 kmsq 2020 down 2.7% flat
99 Egypt 2.24 kmsq 2020 up 10.9% falling
100 Grenada 1.93 kmsq 2020 down 0.3% flat
101 Saint Lucia 1.62 kmsq 2020 up 0.0% flat
102 Kiribati 1.46 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
103 Oman 1.44 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% falling
104 French Polynesia 1.25 kmsq 2020 up 4.6% flat
105 British Virgin Islands 0.9738 kmsq 2020 up 7.3% rising
106 Comoros 0.9694 kmsq 2020 down 0.1% flat
107 Bahrain 0.597 kmsq 2020 down 25.5% falling
108 Guam 0.5221 kmsq 2020 up 0.7% flat
109 Togo 0.496 kmsq 2020 up 20.9% falling
110 Sao Tome and Principe 0.4839 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
111 Aruba 0.4594 kmsq 2020 up 1.6% falling
112 Curacao 0.4444 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
112 Curaçao 0.4444 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
114 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3455 kmsq 2020 down 0.6% flat
115 Marshall Islands 0.3255 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
116 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.3252 kmsq 2020 up 2.4% flat
117 American Samoa 0.3205 kmsq 2020 down 0.4% flat
118 Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.2936 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
119 Bermuda 0.2094 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
120 Barbados 0.1063 kmsq 2020 down 0.9% flat
121 Tuvalu 0.0891 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
122 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.0538 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
123 Anguilla 0.037 kmsq 2020 down 7.0% rising
124 Cook Islands 0.0327 kmsq 2020 unchanged flat
125 Dominica 0.0143 kmsq 2020 up 19.4% rising
126 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
148 places, 1,619 data points, 2000–2020
Last refreshed