Cambodia now loses its forest faster than any big-forest country
Share of forest area lost, 2015–2025 (ticks: 2000–10), 72 countries with 5+ million hectares of forest. FAO estimates.
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- 6. China adds more forest each year than any other country
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- 8. Brazil's Amazon lost the least forest on record
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- 10. Indonesia now emits more CO2 from energy than Germany
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- 19. Outside China and India, the world's CO2 fell since 2015
- 20. Cambodia now loses its forest faster than any big-forest country
Share of Cambodia's forest lost from 2015 to 2025, from 88,468 to 63,332 km², the most of 72 big-forest countries.
Cambodia's loss in 2000–10, only 27th fastest of 70 then. Somalia (19.2%) is now second, Brazil lost 5.7%.
Forest Cambodia lost in ten years, about 14% of the country's land.
the numbers & method
| Forest lost, 2015–25 (%) | 2000–10 (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | 28.4 | 1.8 |
| Somalia | 19.2 | 10.2 |
| Paraguay | 12.7 | 17.2 |
| Guinea | 12.1 | 10.3 |
| Madagascar | 11.0 | 8.2 |
| Honduras | 10.2 | 5.4 |
| Liberia | 10.1 | 4.9 |
| Tanzania | 9.8 | 7.4 |
| Myanmar | 9.7 | 9.8 |
| Brazil | 5.7 | 6.4 |
Claim types Estimate
Forest area (km²) from FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 (FRA 2025), published by the World Bank as WDI indicator AG.LND.FRST.K2 (WDI edition of 8 Oct 2026), read from the World Bank API via the progrss vault (source wb-wdi; GUIDELINES §4.11), cross-checked against the FRA 2025 country table (fra-data.fao.org) in the vault. FAO FRA forest area is country-reported (method changes between editions: compare within one edition); every value here comes from the single FRA 2025 edition, and only FRA reference years (2000, 2010, 2015, 2025) are used, never the interpolated in-between years. FRA 2025 marks Cambodia's 2010 value as measured and its 2000, 2015 and 2025 values as estimates, so the plate is labelled Estimate. Set: the 72 countries with at least 5 million hectares (50,000 km²) of forest in 2015 and a 2025 value; 70 of them also report 2000 and 2010. Shares lost are progrss calculations: 1 − (2025 ÷ 2015) and 1 − (2010 ÷ 2000). Cambodia: 107,810 km² (2000), 105,892 (2010), 88,468 (2015), 63,332 (2025). Cambodia's decline began in 2010–15 (−16.5%). Same-method control: the other 71 countries in the set; 44 of the 72 lost forest in 2015–25, the second-fastest (Somalia) lost 19.2%. This is net change in forest area (losses minus gains), not gross tree-cover loss. Cambodia's land area, 176,520 km², from WDI (AG.LND.TOTL.K2). World Bank data: CC BY 4.0.
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