Cameroon vs Croatia: Annual forest expansion

Cameroon
2,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Croatia
1,460 hectares per year
in 2020
Cameroon rank
57th
Croatia rank
60th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Cameroon
  • Croatia
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How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 2,000 hectares per year against 1,460 hectares per year in Croatia, a difference of 540 hectares per year.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.4 times Croatia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Croatia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 57th and Croatia ranks 60th 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).