Ghana vs Malta: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Ghana

0.5%

in 2025

Malta

0.4%

in 2025

Ghana rank

21st

Malta rank

23rd

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

Ghana currently reports 0.5% against 0.4% in Malta, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.2 times Malta's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Ghana ahead.

Ghana ranks 21st and Malta ranks 23rd 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.