Source: PRS India
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change released the India State of Forest Report, 2019. The report gives a forest and tree cover map for the country.
Key findings of the report are:
- The total forest cover is around 21.7% of the geographical area of the country.
- The total tree cover is around 2.9% of the geographical area.
- There has been an increase of 0.6% of forest cover, and 1.3% of tree cover compared to the previous assessment in 2017.
- Mangrove cover in the country has increased by 1.1% since the previous assessment.
- The annual removal of small timber by people living in villages around forests is nearly 7% of the average annual yield of forests in the country.
- About 21.4% of the forest cover of the country is highly-to-extremely fire-prone.
Forest cover in India(2019)
| Class | Area(sq Km) | % of area |
| Very dense forest | 99,278 | 3.02% |
| Moderately dense forest | 3,08,472 | 9.38% |
| Open forest | 3,04,499 | 9.26% |
| Total forest cover | 7,12,249 | 21.67% |
| Tree cover | 95,027 | 2.89% |
| Non-forest and scrub | 24,80,193 | 75.44% |
| Total geographical area | 32,87,469 | 100.00% |
Note: Forest area covers Mangrove cover
Sources: State of Forest Report, 2019
