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

Laos

-0.3%

in 2025

Vanuatu

-0.3%

in 2025

Laos rank

181st

Vanuatu rank

180th

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

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

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

Laos ranks 181st and Vanuatu ranks 180th 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.