Bars over time
World Tree Cover Loss
Tree cover lost worldwide each year, hectares
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Global Forest Watch (CC BY 4.0). Includes loss from fires, logging and clearing; regrowth is not netted out.
How much tree cover the world loses each year, measured from satellite imagery. Fire years show as spikes.
What this chart reads
- World Tree Cover Loss (Global Forest Watch)as “Tree cover loss”latest 2024-12-31
Sources
World Tree Cover Loss (Global Forest Watch). Source: Global Forest Watch (2025), tree cover loss, processed by Our World in Data (chart tree-cover-loss). Cite: Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Moore, R. et al. (2013), High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change, Science 342: 850–853; data from the University of Maryland, Google, USGS and NASA, accessed through Global Forest Watch (www.globalforestwatch.org). License: CC BY 4.0. Our World in Data processing is CC BY 4.0.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.