Bulgaria vs Congo: Annual forest expansion

Bulgaria
12,600 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Bulgaria rank
26th
Congo rank
24th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Congo
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How they compare

Congo currently reports 14,000 hectares per year against 12,600 hectares per year in Bulgaria, a difference of 1,400 hectares per year.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Bulgaria's.

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

Bulgaria ranks 26th and Congo ranks 24th of 110 countries.

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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).