Home / Forest area / Cameroon
Cameroon — Forest area
Forest Area (% of Land Area) for Cameroon, 1990–2023.
Latest value · 2023
42.67%
Forest Area (% of Land Area) · % of land area · -10.3% since 1990
Forest area for Cameroon was 42.67% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 34 years, from 1990 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 47.60% in 1990. Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.33% per year.
Cameroon ranks 69 of 214 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 32%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 22.44%, so Cameroon sits above it. It peaked in 1990 and has fallen 10% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 3%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
42.67%
First (1990)
47.60%
Change
-10.3%
Highest
47.60%
in 1990
Lowest
42.67%
in 2023
Average
44.88%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.33%
Years of data
34
Recent years
| Year | % of land area |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 42.67% |
| 2022 | 42.79% |
| 2021 | 42.91% |
| 2020 | 43.03% |
| 2019 | 43.15% |
| 2018 | 43.27% |
| 2017 | 43.38% |
| 2016 | 43.5% |
| 2015 | 43.62% |
| 2014 | 43.74% |
| 2013 | 43.86% |
| 2012 | 43.98% |
Reading this correctly. Land under naturally regenerated or planted stands of trees of at least five meters in situ, as a share of total land area. Figures are in % of land area. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
AG.LND.FRST.ZS — Forest Area (% of Land Area). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.