Congo vs Niger: Annual afforestation

Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo rank
13th
Niger rank
11th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Congo
  • Niger
05.0k10.0k15.0k199020052020

How they compare

Niger currently reports 15,000 hectares per year against 14,000 hectares per year in Congo, a difference of 1,000 hectares per year.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Niger has been ahead every year.

Congo ranks 13th and Niger ranks 11th 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.