How Many Trees does the US have?
- Arco group
- Jan 13
- 2 min read
According to a study published in the journal Nature, the United States has approximately 228 billion trees, which constitutes about 7.5% of the estimated total of over 3 trillion trees globally. (Ref. #1) This is about 422 trees per person on the planet.
The area nearest the Equator with its tropical or subtropical forest are home to the greatest portion of the worlds trees with about 1.4 trillion of the over 3 Trillion trees total. The Amazon, the world's largest rainforest, contains 390 billion of these trees. It hosts over 16,000 tree species, accounting for 27% of the world's 60,000 total species. However, just 277 of these species constitute nearly half of the Amazonian tree population. The most prevalent tree in the Amazon is the Euterpe precatoria, a tall, slender palm tree with a population of about 5.2 billion across the rainforest. In contrast, the least common 11,000 tree species each number fewer than 1 million and are at serious risk of extinction as deforestation continues to devastate the area.(Reference #2)
When considering the entire globe the list of the largest world's forest by countries are:
The ten countries with the most trees in billions:
When we consider the density of trees per land area - Finland is the Winner! The Finns have approximately 72,644 trees per square kilometer. Finland has ten times as many trees per capita than the world average, with over 4,000 for every Finnish resident.
. Images of Evergreen forests. Helsinki City photo courtesy of Tarja Turkki
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