Mauritania vs Uganda: Annual afforestation

Mauritania

8,740 hectares per year

in 2020

Uganda

9,840 hectares per year

in 2020

Mauritania rank

18th

Uganda rank

17th

Annual afforestation over time

Uganda currently reports 9,840 hectares per year against 8,740 hectares per year in Mauritania, a difference of 1,100 hectares per year.

That makes Uganda's figure about 1.1 times Mauritania's.

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

Mauritania ranks 18th and Uganda ranks 17th 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.