Forest area | Latvia
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Forest land area (incl. Planted forest) of Latvia in 2025 amounted to 34 670 km², which is 0.191% more than in 2024, when it was 34 604 km². It has been growing in this country for already 33 years in a row. According to the FAOSTAT data, since 1992, the area of forest land has increased in 1.09 times. The minimum forest land area recorded in 1992, with a value of 31 866 km². The maximum of Latvia was in 2025, when it reached 34 670 km². Excludes land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use.
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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. The values include the areas of the sub-categories “Primary forest”, “Planted forest”, and “Naturally regenerating forest”, and are sourced from the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA 2025).
