Mali vs Niger: Annual forest expansion

Mali
14,540 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Mali rank
23rd
Niger rank
22nd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Mali
  • Niger
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k199020052020

How they compare

Niger currently reports 15,000 hectares per year against 14,540 hectares per year in Mali, a difference of 460 hectares per year.

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

Mali ranks 23rd and Niger ranks 22nd 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).