Latvia vs Mauritania: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita

Latvia

0.2%

in 2025

Mauritania

0.3%

in 2025

Latvia rank

42nd

Mauritania rank

39th

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

Mauritania currently reports 0.3% against 0.2% in Latvia, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.4 times Latvia's.

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

Latvia ranks 42nd and Mauritania ranks 39th 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.