Chad vs Madagascar: Annual change in forest area

Chad

-127,914 hectares

in 2025

Madagascar

-124,278 hectares

in 2025

Chad rank

221st

Madagascar rank

218th

Annual change in forest area over time

Madagascar currently reports -124,278 hectares against -127,914 hectares in Chad, a difference of 3,636 hectares.

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

Chad ranks 221st and Madagascar ranks 218th 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.