Mali vs Niger: Annual afforestation

Mali

14,540 hectares per year

in 2020

Niger

15,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Mali rank

12th

Niger rank

11th

Annual afforestation over time

Niger currently reports 15,000 hectares per year against 14,540 hectares per year in Mali, a difference of 460 hectares per year.

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

Mali ranks 12th and Niger ranks 11th 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.