Iceland vs Rwanda: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita

Iceland

1.6%

in 2025

Rwanda

2.3%

in 2025

Iceland rank

3rd

Rwanda rank

1st

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

Rwanda currently reports 2.3% against 1.6% in Iceland, a difference of 0.7%.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.5 times Iceland's.

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

Iceland ranks 3rd and Rwanda ranks 1st 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.