Annual forest area net change in Africa 1990-2020
Africa lost 3.9 million hectares of forest annually from 2010 to 2020. According to the source, this represented the largest annual rate of net forest losses worldwide. Since 1990, the rate has increased in Africa, which indicates that forest losses (deforestation) have exceeded forest gains. From that year until 2020, the continent has seen a total decrease of over 14 percent in its