Colombia vs Comoros: Annual forest expansion

Colombia
140 hectares per year
in 2020
Comoros
100 hectares per year
in 2020
Colombia rank
66th
Comoros rank
67th

Annual forest expansion over time

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

How they compare

Colombia currently reports 140 hectares per year against 100 hectares per year in Comoros, a difference of 40 hectares per year.

That makes Colombia's figure about 1.4 times Comoros's.

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

Colombia ranks 66th and Comoros ranks 67th 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).