Natural Resources

Table 1.41: State-wise forest area

Geogra-phic Reserved
area
forest

States/UTs
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Orissa
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Union Territories
Total
Note

Source

: 1.
2.

275069
83743
78438
94163
135191
1483
3702
196022
44212
55673
222236
79714
191791
38863
308245
307713
22327
22429
21081
16579
155707
50362
342239
706
130058
10486
240928
53483
88752
9478
3287263

50479
10178
18060
693
25782
78
237
14156
249
1896
2551
4387
29550
11098
58734
49217
1467
1112
7909
308
26329
44
11950
5452
19388
3688
11078
23827
7054
3159
399919

Protected
forest
12366
9536
0
5779
24036
7
822
395
1158
33043
17643
19185
3585
170
35587
8196
4171
12
3568
508
15525
1137
17862
389
2183
664
22425
10673
3772
4248
238434

Unclassed
forest
977
31826
8958
1
9954
0
165
4663
151
2094
36
9949
0
900
4526
11780
8372
5240
7813
16282
1903
2975
0
1305
2041
3323
162
1053
3
136387

Total
forest area
63821
51540
27018
6473
59772
86
1224
19113
1568
37033
20230
23605
43084
11268
95221
61939
17418
9496
16717
8629
58136
3084
32488
5841
22877
6293
16826
34662
11879
7410
774740

(Sq.km)
% of forest
to
geographic
area
23.20
61.55
34.45
6.87
44.21
5.73
33.05
9.75
3.52
66.52
9.10
29.51
22.46
28.99
30.89
20.13
78.01
42.34
79.30
52.05
37.34
6.12
9.49
82.31
17.59
60.01
6.98
54.81
13.38
78.18
23.57

India has 76.84 million ha of recorded forest area in March 1999. This accounts for 23.38% of total
geographic area. Per capita availability of forests in India is 0.07 ha which is much lower than the world
average of 0.8 ha.
State of Forest Report, 2003.
Compendium of Environment Statistics India, 2006, Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of
Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of India (Website: http://www.mospi.gov.in).