The global map of forest cover provides a spatially explicit representation of forest presence and absence for the year 2020. It was created by combining available global datasets (wall-to-wall or global in their scope) on tree cover, tree height, land cover and land use into a single harmonized globally-consistent representation of where forests existed in 2020. Forest means land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 metres and a canopy cover of more than 10 %, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ, excluding land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. This tool is intended as a data viewer and does not provide any analytical features. The data can be downloaded here.