Madagascar vs Nigeria: Annual change in forest area

Madagascar

-124,278 hectares

in 2025

Nigeria

-126,882 hectares

in 2025

Madagascar rank

218th

Nigeria rank

219th

Annual change in forest area over time

Madagascar currently reports -124,278 hectares against -126,882 hectares in Nigeria, a difference of 2,604 hectares.

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

Madagascar ranks 218th and Nigeria ranks 219th 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.