Rwanda vs Yemen: Forest area

Rwanda

634,630 hectares

in 2025

Yemen

549,000 hectares

in 2025

Rwanda rank

139th

Yemen rank

141st

Forest area over time

Rwanda
Yemen

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 634,630 hectares against 549,000 hectares in Yemen, a difference of 85,630 hectares.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.2 times Yemen's.

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

Rwanda ranks 139th and Yemen ranks 141st of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Rwanda
Forest area in Yemen
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.