Congo vs Czechia: Annual forest expansion

Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Czechia
11,680 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo rank
24th
Czechia rank
27th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Congo
  • Czechia
05.0k10.0k15.0k199020052020

How they compare

Congo currently reports 14,000 hectares per year against 11,680 hectares per year in Czechia, a difference of 2,320 hectares per year.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.2 times Czechia's.

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

Congo ranks 24th and Czechia ranks 27th 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).