Brazil vs Nigeria: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Brazil

-0.7%

in 2025

Nigeria

-0.7%

in 2025

Brazil rank

201st

Nigeria rank

203rd

Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area over time

Brazil currently reports -0.7% against -0.7% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Nigeria ahead.

Brazil ranks 201st and Nigeria ranks 203rd of 228 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area
Unit: %
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: 228 places, 7,980 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.