Chad vs Colombia: Annual afforestation

Chad

300 hectares per year

in 2020

Colombia

140 hectares per year

in 2020

Chad rank

56th

Colombia rank

57th

Annual afforestation over time

Chad currently reports 300 hectares per year against 140 hectares per year in Colombia, a difference of 160 hectares per year.

That makes Chad's figure about 2.1 times Colombia's.

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

Chad ranks 56th and Colombia ranks 57th of 106 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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