Cameroon vs Estonia: Annual forest expansion

Cameroon
2,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Estonia
2,160 hectares per year
in 2020
Cameroon rank
57th
Estonia rank
56th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Cameroon
  • Estonia
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How they compare

Estonia currently reports 2,160 hectares per year against 2,000 hectares per year in Cameroon, a difference of 160 hectares per year.

That makes Estonia's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Estonia has been ahead every year.

Cameroon ranks 57th and Estonia ranks 56th 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).