Deforestation statistics for Angola

Total land area: Angola

Total land areaha
Land area124,860,517
Tree cover in 201852,074,907

 

Forest and tree cover extent: Angola

Extent of primary forest cover and tree cover for Angola. All area figures are in hectares (ha)
YearPrimary forestTree cover (30%)
200055,341,830
20012,457,476
20102,422,81953,896,051
20182,346,96152,074,907
Primary/Total tree cover
2018		5%
Tree cover/Total land area
2018		41.7%

 

Primary forest loss and tree cover loss: Angola

Annual loss of primary forest cover and tree cover for Angola by year. All area figures are in hectares (ha)
YearPrimary forestTree cover (30%)
2001101,322
20023,50061,089
20032,96452,510
20042,35571,315
20053,11071,315
20061,40176,998
20078,060145,409
20082,699103,653
20095,343166,109
20105,226159,944
20114,259183,111
20125,595180,921
20139,264169,001
201410,993212,873
20159,000161,864
201612,048229,915
201711,180280,727
201813,520242,788
Primary loss 2002-2018110,516
Tree cover loss
2001-2018		2,569,542
Primary loss/
Total tree cover loss		4.3%
Percent loss
2001-2018		4.5%
Loss/year
(2001/2-2010)		 3,850.83 100,966
Loss/year
(2011-2018)		 9,482.30 207,650

 

Biodiversity data: Angola

Species count by taxa for Angola. For consistency, all data for a given group comes from a single source. Amphibians - amphibiaweb; Reptiles - reptile-database; Fish - fishbase; Birds - birdlife; Mammals - IUCN; and Plants - World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC).
Animal / plant groupSpecies count
Birds915
Amphibians103
Reptiles280
Fishes926
Mammals285
Vascular plants5185

 

Conservation data: Angola

Data on threatened species in Angola as of 2018, according to the IUCN Red List.
TaxaSpecies count
Threatened mammals (2018)18
Threatened birds (2018)32
Threatened fishes (2018)53
Threatened higher plants (2018)34

 

Protected areas data: Angola

Data on threatened species in Angola as of 2017, according to the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) maintained by the United Nations Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).
Protected areas (2017)Percentage
Terrestrial protected areas,
% of total land area		7
Marine protected areas,
% of territorial waters

 

 

Archived forest data for Angola | Forest data for Angola

 

Data Source: Tree cover loss: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA via Global Forest Watch. Administrative boundaries: Global Administrative Areas database (GADM), version 3.6.

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