Italy vs Madagascar: Forest area

Italy
9.42 million hectares
in 2025
Madagascar
9.92 million hectares
in 2025
Italy rank
56th
Madagascar rank
54th

Forest area over time

  • Italy
  • Madagascar
05.0M10.0M15.0M199020072025

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 9.92 million hectares against 9.42 million hectares in Italy, a difference of 500,120 hectares.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

Across all 36 years both countries report, Madagascar has been ahead every year.

Italy ranks 56th and Madagascar ranks 54th 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.