Annual Forest Area Change Rate

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: forest-area-change-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Annual Forest Area Change Rate: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	193	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	193	0
Annual net change in forest area over the interval ending that year (%)forest_change_rateHeadline	The headline figure: Compound annual change in forest area over the interval ending that year (%).	Number · up to 2 decimals	-3.29Cambodia12.30Bahrainmiddle 0.00	111	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The same 193 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 32 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKosovoMacauMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fra-data.fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Annual Forest Area Change Rate 2025

   SDG_BulkDownloads_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   3 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as forest-area-change-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/forest-area-change

FAOSTAT's SDG Indicators domain, which republishes the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025, read from FAO's own bulk download. Readings are published to two decimal places.

• Charted

  Annual Forest Area Change Rate by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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