Cameroon vs Zambia: Annual change in forest area

Cameroon

-116,956 hectares

in 2025

Zambia

-97,156 hectares

in 2025

Cameroon rank

216th

Zambia rank

214th

Annual change in forest area over time

Zambia currently reports -97,156 hectares against -116,956 hectares in Cameroon, a difference of 19,800 hectares.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Zambia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 216th and Zambia ranks 214th 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.