India vs Sudan: Annual forest expansion

India
674,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Sudan
89,860 hectares per year
in 2020
India rank
4th
Sudan rank
6th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • India
  • Sudan
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How they compare

India currently reports 674,000 hectares per year against 89,860 hectares per year in Sudan, a difference of 584,140 hectares per year.

That makes India's figure about 7.5 times Sudan's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, India has been ahead every year.

India ranks 4th and Sudan ranks 6th 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).