Egypt vs Namibia: Annual forest expansion

Egypt
30 hectares per year
in 2020
Namibia
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Egypt rank
70th
Namibia rank
73rd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Egypt
  • Namibia
050100150199020052020

How they compare

Egypt currently reports 30 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Namibia, a difference of 30 hectares per year.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Namibia ahead.

Egypt ranks 70th and Namibia ranks 73rd 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).