Latvia vs Palau: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Latvia

0.2%

in 2025

Palau

0.2%

in 2025

Latvia rank

43rd

Palau rank

42nd

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

Palau currently reports 0.2% against 0.2% in Latvia, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Palau's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.

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

Latvia ranks 43rd and Palau ranks 42nd 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.