Ecuador vs Laos: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Ecuador

-0.2%

in 2025

Laos

-0.3%

in 2025

Ecuador rank

179th

Laos rank

181st

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

Ecuador currently reports -0.2% against -0.3% in Laos, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Laos ahead.

Ecuador ranks 179th and Laos ranks 181st 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.