Sierra Leone vs Uganda: Forest area

Sierra Leone

2.44 million hectares

in 2025

Uganda

2.37 million hectares

in 2025

Sierra Leone rank

100th

Uganda rank

102nd

Forest area over time

Sierra Leone
Uganda

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 2.44 million hectares against 2.37 million hectares in Uganda, a difference of 68,600 hectares.

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

Sierra Leone ranks 100th and Uganda ranks 102nd of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Sierra Leone
Forest area in Uganda
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.