Congo vs United Kingdom: Annual forest expansion

Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
United Kingdom
13,400 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo rank
24th
United Kingdom rank
25th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Congo
  • United Kingdom
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k199020052020

How they compare

Congo currently reports 14,000 hectares per year against 13,400 hectares per year in United Kingdom, a difference of 600 hectares per year.

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

Congo ranks 24th and United Kingdom ranks 25th 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).