Dataset
Annual change in forest area
owid.annual-change-forest-area
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About
Net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Annual change in forest area” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1991–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-12-05
- Units
- hectares
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-change-forest-area
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| net_change_forest_area | number | Annual change in forest area (hectares) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |