Senegal vs Togo: Annual forest expansion

Senegal
5,920 hectares per year
in 2020
Togo
7,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Senegal rank
43rd
Togo rank
40th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Senegal
  • Togo
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How they compare

Togo currently reports 7,000 hectares per year against 5,920 hectares per year in Senegal, a difference of 1,080 hectares per year.

That makes Togo's figure about 1.2 times Senegal's.

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

Senegal ranks 43rd and Togo ranks 40th 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).