France vs Kazakhstan: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita

France
0.5%
in 2025
Kazakhstan
0.4%
in 2025
France rank
21st
Kazakhstan rank
24th

Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita over time

  • France
  • Kazakhstan
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How they compare

France currently reports 0.5% against 0.4% in Kazakhstan, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes France's figure about 1.3 times Kazakhstan's.

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

France ranks 21st and Kazakhstan ranks 24th of 227 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita
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
227 places, 7,945 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed

Annual net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.