France vs Philippines: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

France

0.5%

in 2025

Philippines

0.6%

in 2025

France rank

22nd

Philippines rank

19th

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

Philippines currently reports 0.6% against 0.5% in France, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Philippines's figure about 1.1 times France's.

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

France ranks 22nd and Philippines ranks 19th 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.