Cape Verde vs Palau: Forest area

Cape Verde
51,060 hectares
in 2025
Palau
41,870 hectares
in 2025
Cape Verde rank
172nd
Palau rank
173rd

Forest area over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Palau
020.0k40.0k60.0k199020072025

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 51,060 hectares against 41,870 hectares in Palau, a difference of 9,190 hectares.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 1.2 times Palau's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Palau ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 172nd and Palau ranks 173rd of 235 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Forest area
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, 8,460 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems.