Cameroon vs Congo: Share of global forest area

Cameroon
0.5%
in 2025
Congo
0.5%
in 2025
Cameroon rank
33rd
Congo rank
31st

Share of global forest area over time

  • Cameroon
  • Congo
00.20.40.6199020072025

How they compare

Congo currently reports 0.5% against 0.5% in Cameroon, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

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

Cameroon ranks 33rd and Congo ranks 31st of 235 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of global forest area
Unit
%
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
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Share of global forest area represents the proportion of a country's forest area relative to the total global forest area.