Uganda vs Venezuela: Annual forest expansion
Uganda
9,840 hectares per year
in 2020
Venezuela
10,810 hectares per year
in 2020
Uganda rank
30th
Venezuela rank
29th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Uganda
- Venezuela
How they compare
Venezuela currently reports 10,810 hectares per year against 9,840 hectares per year in Uganda, a difference of 970 hectares per year.
That makes Venezuela's figure about 1.1 times Uganda's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Venezuela ahead.
Uganda ranks 30th and Venezuela ranks 29th of 110 countries.
Venezuela has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Uganda | Venezuela | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 9,840 hectares per year | 35,800 hectares per year | 25,960 hectares per year | Venezuela |
| 2000s | 9,840 hectares per year | 20,200 hectares per year | 10,360 hectares per year | Venezuela |
| 2010s | 9,840 hectares per year | 12,650 hectares per year | 2,810 hectares per year | Venezuela |
| 2020s | 9,840 hectares per year | 10,810 hectares per year | 970 hectares per year | Venezuela |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher annual forest expansion, Uganda or Venezuela?
- Venezuela, at 10,810 hectares per year against 9,840 hectares per year in Uganda as of 2020.
- What is the difference in annual forest expansion between Uganda and Venezuela?
- 970 hectares per year, with Venezuela ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Uganda and Venezuela?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2020.
- How do Uganda and Venezuela rank globally for annual forest expansion?
- Uganda ranks 30th and Venezuela ranks 29th of 110 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Annual forest expansion. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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).