land area is occupied by forests, a share that has been annually increasing since 2010. In 2016, forests accounted for 54.6 percent of the country's approximate 51 thousand square kilometers of surface area. Meanwhile, around eleven percent of Costa Rica's land area was covered by arable and croplands that year.
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