Ghana vs Philippines: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita

Ghana

0.5%

in 2025

Philippines

0.6%

in 2025

Ghana rank

20th

Philippines rank

18th

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

Philippines currently reports 0.6% against 0.5% in Ghana, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Philippines's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

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

Ghana ranks 20th and Philippines ranks 18th of 227 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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