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Cape Verde vs Democratic Republic of Congo: Annual afforestation

Cape Verde
610 hectares per year
in 2020
Democratic Republic of Congo
610 hectares per year
in 2020
Cape Verde rank
48th
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
48th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
5001.0k1.5k2.0k2.5k199020052020

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 610 hectares per year against 610 hectares per year in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 0 hectares per year.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 48th and Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 48th of 106 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual afforestation
Unit
hectares per year
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
106 places, 530 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Afforestation is the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest.