Madagascar vs Mali: Annual change in forest area

Madagascar

-124,278 hectares

in 2025

Mali

-100,546 hectares

in 2025

Madagascar rank

218th

Mali rank

215th

Annual change in forest area over time

Mali currently reports -100,546 hectares against -124,278 hectares in Madagascar, a difference of 23,732 hectares.

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

Madagascar ranks 218th and Mali ranks 215th 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.