Brazil vs Tanzania: Annual forest expansion

Brazil
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Tanzania
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Brazil rank
73rd
Tanzania rank
73rd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Brazil
  • Tanzania
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 0 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Tanzania, a difference of 0 hectares per year.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 73rd and Tanzania ranks 73rd of 110 countries.

Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil Tanzania Difference Ahead
1990s 661,480 hectares per year 0 hectares per year 661,480 hectares per year Brazil
2000s 1.46 million hectares per year 0 hectares per year 1.46 million hectares per year Brazil
2010s 0 hectares per year 0 hectares per year 0 hectares per year
2020s 0 hectares per year 0 hectares per year 0 hectares per year

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher annual forest expansion, Brazil or Tanzania?
Brazil, at 0 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Tanzania as of 2020.
What is the difference in annual forest expansion between Brazil and Tanzania?
0 hectares per year, with Brazil ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Tanzania?
5 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2020.
How do Brazil and Tanzania rank globally for annual forest expansion?
Brazil ranks 73rd and Tanzania ranks 73rd of 110 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Annual forest expansion. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual forest expansion
Unit
hectares per year
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
110 places, 550 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Forest expansion is the sum of afforestation (the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding) and natural forest expansion (expansion of forests through natural succession on land that, until then, was under another land use).