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Share of global tree canopy coverage of all forest area in 2016, by biome

Characteristic	Share of global tree canopy coverage
Tropical rainforest	32%
Tropical moist deciduous forest	11%
Tropical dry forest	4%
Tropical mountain system	4%
Tropical shrubland	0%
Subtropical humid forest	5%
Subtropical mountain system	2%
Subtropical dry forest	1%
Subtropical steppe	1%
Temperate continental forest	8%
Temperate mountain system	5%
Temperate oceanic forest	2%
Temperate steppe	1%
Boreal coniferous forest	13%
Boreal mountain system	7%
Boreal tundra woodland	3%
Polar	1%

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2020

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Figures have been rounded.
An additional entry for tropical shrubland was given at 0% - suggesting its share of global canopy coverage is less than 0.5%.

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Tropical rainforests make up almost one third of all forest area in the world, when looking at the area of canopy coverage. The world's largest rainforests are found near the equator in South America, Central Africa, and the South Pacific. In fact, the combined total of all types of tropical forest account for over 51 percent of the world's canopy coverage.
The second most common individual biome type is boreal coniferous forest, which refers to the Taiga - an almost continuous forest that stretches from Scandinavia, across Russia, and covers much of Alaska and northern Canada.