Congo vs Niger: Annual forest expansion
Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo rank
24th
Niger rank
22nd
Annual forest expansion over time
- Congo
- Niger
How they compare
Niger currently reports 15,000 hectares per year against 14,000 hectares per year in Congo, a difference of 1,000 hectares per year.
That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Niger has been ahead every year.
Congo ranks 24th and Niger ranks 22nd of 110 countries.
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About this data
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).