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Chad vs Democratic Republic of Congo: Annual forest expansion

Chad
300 hectares per year
in 2020
Democratic Republic of Congo
610 hectares per year
in 2020
Chad rank
65th
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
63rd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Chad
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
5001.0k1.5k2.0k199020052020

How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 610 hectares per year against 300 hectares per year in Chad, a difference of 310 hectares per year.

That makes Democratic Republic of Congo's figure about 2.0 times Chad's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Democratic Republic of Congo has been ahead every year.

Chad ranks 65th and Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 63rd 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).