Table 99: State-wise Forest Cover

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Table 99: State-wise Forest Cover

(Square Kilometre)
State/Union Territory	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	7,601	7,622	7,622	7,624	7,615	7,613	7,606	6,930	6,964	6,663
Andhra Pradesh	49,573	47,290	47,290	47,256	47,112	43,290	44,229	44,637	44,419	45,231
Arunachal Pradesh	64,132	69,002	68,757	68,661	68,621	68,602	68,847	68,045	68,019	67,472
Assam	25,160	24,832	24,751	24,508	24,061	23,824	23,688	27,714	27,826	27,758
Bihar	28,482	26,668	26,668	26,587	26,561	4,832	4,830	5,720	5,558	6,807
Chandigarh	2	5	5	5	7	7	7	9	15	17
Chhattisgarh	-	-	-	-	-	56,435	56,693	56,448	55,998	55,929
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	238	206	206	206	204	204	202	219	225	216
Daman & Diu	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	6	8	6
Delhi	15	22	22	22	26	26	88	111	170	177
Goa	1,240	1,255	1,255	1,250	1,247	1,252	1,251	2,095	2,156	2,156
Gujarat	11,991	11,921	11,907	12,044	12,320	12,578	12,965	15,152	14,946	14,604
Haryana	513	513	513	513	603	604	964	1,754	1,517	1,604
Himachal Pradesh	12,480	12,480	12,480	12,502	12,501	12,521	13,082	14,360	14,353	14,666
Jammu & Kashmir	20,905	20,499	20,499	20,443	20,433	20,440	20,441	21,237	21,267	22,689
Jharkhand	-	-	-	-	-	21,692	21,644	22,637	22,716	22,722
Karnataka	32,268	32,104	32,199	32,343	32,382	32,403	32,467	36,991	36,449	36,200
Kerala	10,292	10,292	10,292	10,336	10,336	10,334	10,323	15,560	15,577	17,284
Lakshadweep	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	23	26
Madhya Pradesh	1,30,099	1,35,541	1,35,541	1,35,396	1,35,164	74,760	75,137	77,265	76,429	77,739
Maharashtra	45,616	44,044	44,044	43,859	43,843	46,143	46,672	47,482	46,865	50,661
Manipur	17,475	17,685	17,685	17,621	17,558	17,418	17,384	16,926	17,219	16,952
Meghalaya	16,466	15,645	15,875	15,769	15,714	15,657	15,633	15,584	16,839	17,205
Mizoram	19,084	18,170	18,853	18,697	18,576	18,775	18,338	17,494	18,430	18,600
Nagaland	14,394	14,399	14,321	14,348	14,291	14,221	14,164	13,345	13,609	13,665
Odisha	53,253	47,227	47,205	47,145	47,107	46,941	47,033	48,838	48,366	48,755
Puducherry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	40	42
Punjab	943	1,338	1,343	1,343	1,342	1,387	1,412	2,432	1,580	1,660
Rajasthan	12,758	12,884	12,889	13,099	13,280	13,353	13,871	16,367	15,826	16,012
Sikkim	2,756	3,041	3,041	3,119	3,127	3,129	3,118	3,193	3,262	3,357
Tamil Nadu	17,472	16,992	16,992	17,005	17,045	17,064	17,078	21,482	22,643	23,314
Telangana	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tripura	5,953	5,535	5,535	5,538	5,538	5,546	5,745	7,065	8,093	8,173
Uttar Pradesh	31,226	33,627	33,609	33,961	33,986	10,751	10,756	13,746	14,118	14,346
Uttarakhand	-	-	-	-	-	23,243	23,260	23,938	24,465	24,493
West Bengal	8,432	8,015	8,015	8,186	8,276	8,349	8,362	10,693	12,343	12,970
All-India	6,40,819	6,38,804	6,39,364	6,39,386	6,38,879	6,33,397	6,37,293	6,75,538	6,78,333	6,90,171

TABLE 99: STATE-WISE FOREST COVER (Concld.)
(Square Kilometre)
State/Union Territory	2007	2009	2011	2013*	2015	2017	2019	2021*	2023*
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	6,662	6,662	6,724	6,711	6,751	6,742	6,743	6,737	6,733
Andhra Pradesh	45,102	46,670	46,389	26,044	26,006	28,147	29,137	30,224	30,085
Arunachal Pradesh	67,353	67,484	67,410	66,966	67,154	66,964	66,688	65,973	65,882
Assam	27,692	27,692	27,673	27,565	27,538	28,105	28,327	28,325	28,314
Bihar	6,804	6,804	6,845	7,284	7,254	7,299	7,306	7,403	7,532
Chandigarh	17	17	17	17	22	22	22	24	25
Chhattisgarh	55,870	55,678	55,674	55,607	55,559	55,547	55,611	55,831	55,812
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	211	211	211	220	206	207	207	226	226
Daman & Diu	6	6	6	-	20	20	20	-	-
Delhi	177	177	176	180	189	192	195	195	195
Goa	2,151	2,212	2,219	2,219	2,210	2,229	2,237	2,267	2,266
Gujarat	14,620	14,620	14,619	14,508	14,710	14,757	14,857	14,837	15,017
Haryana	1,594	1,594	1,608	1,583	1,580	1,588	1,602	1,628	1,614
Himachal Pradesh	14,668	14,668	14,679	14,683	14,707	15,100	15,434	15,526	15,580
Jammu & Kashmir	22,686	22,537	22,539	20,948	22,988	23,241	23,612	21,263	21,346
Jharkhand	22,894	22,894	22,977	23,815	23,524	23,553	23,611	23,707	23,766
Karnataka	36,190	36,190	36,194	36,171	36,449	37,550	38,575	39,107	39,254
Kerala	17,324	17,324	17,300	18,384	19,278	20,321	21,144	21,926	22,059
Lakshadweep	26	26	27	27	27	27	27	27	27
Madhya Pradesh	77,700	77,700	77,700	77,522	77,426	77,414	77,482	77,445	77,073
Maharashtra	50,650	50,650	50,646	50,632	50,699	50,682	50,778	50,913	50,859
Manipur	17,280	17,280	17,090	16,961	17,083	17,346	16,847	16,640	16,585
Meghalaya	17,321	17,321	17,275	17,241	17,262	17,146	17,119	16,997	16,967
Mizoram	19,240	19,183	19,117	18,978	18,717	18,186	18,006	17,749	17,990
Nagaland	13,464	13,464	13,318	13,017	12,939	12,489	12,486	12,274	12,222
Odisha	48,855	48,855	48,903	50,545	50,460	51,345	51,619	52,282	52,434
Puducherry	44	50	50	51	57	54	52	44	44
Punjab	1,664	1,664	1,764	1,791	1,771	1,837	1,849	1,847	1,846
Rajasthan	16,036	16,036	16,087	16,086	16,106	16,572	16,630	16,632	16,548
Sikkim	3,357	3,359	3,359	3,358	3,353	3,344	3,342	3,353	3,358
Tamil Nadu	23,338	23,551	23,625	24,245	26,208	26,281	26,364	26,511	26,450
Telangana	-	-	-	19,957	19,854	20,419	20,582	21,279	21,179
Tripura	8,073	7,985	7,977	7,949	7,890	7,726	7,726	7,680	7,585
Uttar Pradesh	14,341	14,341	14,338	14,360	14,401	14,679	14,806	14,927	15,046
Uttarakhand	24,495	24,495	24,496	24,508	24,272	24,295	24,303	24,327	24,304
West Bengal	12,994	12,994	12,995	17,102	16,826	16,847	16,902	16,782	16,832
Ladakh	-	-	-	1,478	-	-	-	2,279	2,286
ALL INDIA	6,90,899	6,92,394	6,92,027	6,98,712	7,01,495	7,08,273	7,12,249	7,15,186	7,15,343
*: Figures for the years 2013, 2021 and 2023 are without any normalisation factor as per the India State of Forest Report 2023. Notes: 1. The Forest cover includes all lands which have a tree canopy density of more than ten percent when projected vertically on the horizontal ground, within a minimum areal extent of one hectare. 2. Jammu & Kashmir includes data for UT of Jammu & Kashmir and UT of Ladakh except for the years 2013, 2021 and 2023. 3. Forest Survey of India (FSI) is being carried out country-wide, biennially, since 1987. 4. For the year 2013 and from 2021 onwards, the data for Daman and Diu is clubbed with Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Source: India State of Forest Report, Various issues, Forest Survey of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.