Niger vs Uruguay: Annual forest expansion
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Uruguay
18,370 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger rank
22nd
Uruguay rank
20th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Niger
- Uruguay
How they compare
Uruguay currently reports 18,370 hectares per year against 15,000 hectares per year in Niger, a difference of 3,370 hectares per year.
That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.2 times Niger's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, Uruguay has been ahead every year.
Niger ranks 22nd and Uruguay ranks 20th of 110 countries.
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About this data
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).