Bulgaria vs Rwanda: Annual change in forest area

Bulgaria

12,600 hectares

in 2025

Rwanda

14,560 hectares

in 2025

Bulgaria rank

25th

Rwanda rank

22nd

Annual change in forest area over time

Rwanda currently reports 14,560 hectares against 12,600 hectares in Bulgaria, a difference of 1,960 hectares.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.2 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 25th and Rwanda ranks 22nd of 235 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in forest area
Unit: hectares
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: 235 places, 8,225 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.