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Forest Land Area rose 1.69% to 2.76 '000 sq km in Burundi in 2015

Forest Land Area ('000 sq km), 2015
Paper, Pulp & Forestry | Burundi | July 14, 2018
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Forest land area rose 1.69% to 2.76 '000 sq km in Burundi in 2015, according to Faostat.

Historically, forest land area in Burundi reached an all time high of 2.89 '000 sq km in 1990 and an all time low of 1.74 '000 sq km in 2009. When compared to Burundi's main peers, forest land area in Rwanda amounted to 4.80 '000 sq km, 461 '000 sq km in Tanzania, 20.8 '000 sq km in Uganda and 1,526 '000 sq km in Dem. Republic of the Congo in 2015.

Burundi has been ranked 146th within the group of 173 countries we follow in terms of forest land area, 4 places above the position seen 10 years ago.

Forest Land Area Unit 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Angola '000 sq km 586 585 584 582 581
Burundi '000 sq km 1.74 2.53 2.58 2.62 2.67
Central African Republic '000 sq km 226 222 222 222 222
Congo '000 sq km 224 224 224 224 224
Dem. Republic of the Congo '000 sq km 1,544 1,541 1,538 1,535 1,532
Kenya '000 sq km 34.8 42.3 42.7 43.0 43.4
Mozambique '000 sq km 392 390 388 386 384
Rwanda '000 sq km 4.25 4.46 4.53 4.60 4.66
South Sudan '000 sq km ... ... 71.6 71.6 71.6 ...
Tanzania '000 sq km 338 479 475 472 468
Uganda '000 sq km 30.8 27.5 26.2 24.8 23.5
Zambia '000 sq km 496 495 493 491 490

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