Guinea vs Tunisia: Annual forest expansion

Guinea
1,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Tunisia
1,580 hectares per year
in 2020
Guinea rank
61st
Tunisia rank
58th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Guinea
  • Tunisia
02.0k4.0k6.0k199020052020

How they compare

Tunisia currently reports 1,580 hectares per year against 1,000 hectares per year in Guinea, a difference of 580 hectares per year.

That makes Tunisia's figure about 1.6 times Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Tunisia ahead.

Guinea ranks 61st and Tunisia ranks 58th 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).