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
010.0k20.0k30.0k40.0k50.0k199020052020

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.

Individual pages

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).