Chile vs Nigeria: Forest area

Chile
18.16 million hectares
in 2025
Nigeria
17.13 million hectares
in 2025
Chile rank
37th
Nigeria rank
39th

Forest area over time

  • Chile
  • Nigeria
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M199020072025

How they compare

Chile currently reports 18.16 million hectares against 17.13 million hectares in Nigeria, a difference of 1.03 million hectares.

That makes Chile's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

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

Chile ranks 37th and Nigeria ranks 39th 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.