Equatorial Guinea vs Gabon: Annual change in forest area

Equatorial Guinea

-8,360 hectares

in 2025

Gabon

-6,732 hectares

in 2025

Equatorial Guinea rank

191st

Gabon rank

188th

Annual change in forest area over time

Gabon currently reports -6,732 hectares against -8,360 hectares in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 1,628 hectares.

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

Equatorial Guinea ranks 191st and Gabon ranks 188th 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.