Cameroon vs Senegal: Annual afforestation

Cameroon
2,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Senegal
2,360 hectares per year
in 2020
Cameroon rank
37th
Senegal rank
35th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Cameroon
  • Senegal
05001.0k1.5k2.0k2.5k199020052020

How they compare

Senegal currently reports 2,360 hectares per year against 2,000 hectares per year in Cameroon, a difference of 360 hectares per year.

That makes Senegal's figure about 1.2 times Cameroon's.

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

Cameroon ranks 37th and Senegal ranks 35th 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.