Chad vs Nigeria: Change in domestic forest area vs. deforestation embedded in imported goods

Chad

-127,914 hectares

in 2025

Nigeria

-126,882 hectares

in 2025

Chad rank

221st

Nigeria rank

219th

Change in domestic forest area vs. deforestation embedded in imported goods over time

Nigeria currently reports -126,882 hectares against -127,914 hectares in Chad, a difference of 1,032 hectares.

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

Chad ranks 221st and Nigeria ranks 219th of 235 countries.

Indicator: Change in domestic forest area vs. deforestation embedded in imported goods
Unit: hectares
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: 235 places, 8,225 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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