Chad vs Colombia: Annual forest expansion

Chad
300 hectares per year
in 2020
Colombia
140 hectares per year
in 2020
Chad rank
65th
Colombia rank
66th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Chad
  • Colombia
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k199020052020

How they compare

Chad currently reports 300 hectares per year against 140 hectares per year in Colombia, a difference of 160 hectares per year.

That makes Chad's figure about 2.1 times Colombia's.

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

Chad ranks 65th and Colombia ranks 66th 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).