Kenya vs Rwanda: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Kenya

1.6%

in 2025

Rwanda

2.3%

in 2025

Kenya rank

3rd

Rwanda rank

2nd

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

Rwanda currently reports 2.3% against 1.6% in Kenya, a difference of 0.6%.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.4 times Kenya's.

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

Kenya ranks 3rd and Rwanda ranks 2nd 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.