Tanzania vs Zambia: Forest area

Tanzania

43.40 million hectares

in 2025

Zambia

44.87 million hectares

in 2025

Tanzania rank

19th

Zambia rank

18th

Forest area over time

Tanzania
Zambia

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 44.87 million hectares against 43.40 million hectares in Tanzania, a difference of 1.47 million hectares.

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

Tanzania ranks 19th and Zambia ranks 18th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Tanzania
Forest area in Zambia
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.