Cameroon vs Congo: Forest area

Cameroon
19.14 million hectares
in 2025
Congo
21.85 million hectares
in 2025
Cameroon rank
33rd
Congo rank
31st

Forest area over time

  • Cameroon
  • Congo
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M25.0M199020072025

How they compare

Congo currently reports 21.85 million hectares against 19.14 million hectares in Cameroon, a difference of 2.71 million hectares.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

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

Cameroon ranks 33rd and Congo ranks 31st 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.