Country comparison · 80 cities measured
Angola vs Bangladesh Air quality index (AQI) and deforestation
Angola has cleaner air than Bangladesh right now: its cities average AQI 50 against 125.
Angola has lost more forest since 2001. Bangladesh has more tree cover in its cities.
Average of 35 cities
AQI 50
Good
Cleaner on average
- Tree cover
- 11.5%
- Forest lost since 2001
- 4.62 million ha
Average of 45 cities
AQI 125
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Cleaner on average
- At ground stations
- AQI 199
- Tree cover
- 52.9%
- Forest lost since 2001
- 263,000 ha
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Angola50Bangladesh125
Head to head
Angola vs Bangladesh at a glance
Angola is ahead on 3 of 5 measures, and Bangladesh on 2. The better figure in each row is marked.
| Angola | Bangladesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Average air qualityUS AQI, all measured cities. | 50 (better) | 125 |
| Cities over AQI 100Not fine for sensitive groups. | 3% (better) | 51% |
| Forest lost since 2001The whole country. | 4.62 million ha | 263,000 ha (better) |
| Share of its forest lostOf what it had in 2000. | 8.3% (better) | 14% |
| Average tree coverAcross its measured cities. | 11.5% | 52.9% (better) |
Air quality today
Is Angola cleaner than Bangladesh?
On air quality, yes, right now. Angola has cleaner air than Bangladesh right now: its cities average AQI 50 against 125.
3% of the measured cities in Angola are over AQI 100 today, the point where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, against 51% in Bangladesh.
How each country's cities split across the air quality bands
Angola
- Good17 (49%)
- Moderate17 (49%)
- Unhealthy for sensitive groups1 (3%)
Bangladesh
- Good2 (4%)
- Moderate20 (44%)
- Unhealthy for sensitive groups7 (16%)
- Unhealthy9 (20%)
- Very unhealthy7 (16%)
Every measured city, including model estimates where no ground station is near.
Against everywhere else
How do Angola and Bangladesh compare with other countries?
Right now the cities of Angola average cleaner air than 54% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and those of Bangladesh than 3%.
Cleaner air than…
- Angola
- Beats 54%
- Bangladesh
- Beats 3%
More tree cover than…
- Angola
- Beats 22%
- Bangladesh
- Beats 98%
Deforestation · 2001–2025
Which country has lost more forest, Angola or Bangladesh?
Angola has lost more: about 4.62 million ha of forest from 2001 to 2025, against 263,000 ha in Bangladesh, or 18 times as much. 3.18 million ha of Angola's was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns; the rest burned, was logged or can grow back.
The whole country, from the yearly satellite maps of forest loss: unlike the city averages above, this counts every forest, not just the land around cities.
Worst year: 2025, with 379,000 ha lost.
Worst year: 2017, with 27,500 ha lost.
| Angola | Bangladesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Forest lost since 2001Cleared, burned or logged. | 4.62 million ha | 263,000 ha (better) |
| Share of its forestOf what it had in 2000. | 8.3% (better) | 14% |
| Cleared for goodTurned into farms, mines or towns. | 3.18 million ha | 49,400 ha (better) |
| Recent trend2021–2025 against the five years before. | Speeding up | Slowing down |
| Main known cause | Farms, pasture and plantations (68%) | Shifting farming (73%) |
Trees
Which country has more tree cover, Angola or Bangladesh?
Bangladesh does: its measured cities average 52.9% tree cover against 11.5%, a gap of 41.4 percentage points.
| Angola | Bangladesh | |
|---|---|---|
| Trees standingSummed across measured cities. | 1.2M | 7.0M (better) |
| Cities below their targetShort of the canopy target. | 97% | 18% (better) |
| Trees still neededTo reach those targets. | 1.9M | 315K (better) |
Behind the averages
The cities behind Angola and Bangladesh
An average says nothing about how far apart the best and worst places are. These are the measured cities at each end.
Angola
- Greenest measured city
- Chitato32.8% tree cover
- Worst air right now
- Mbanza KongoAQI 106
Reading these numbers
What a country average is, and is not
It is a mean of cities
Not a national statistic. Each figure is the average across the cities Airleaf has measured: 35 in Angola and 45 in Bangladesh, each read over the same 2 km radius, on the US EPA index. Rural land and unmeasured towns are not in it.
Coverage shapes the number
A country measured mostly in its capital reads differently from one measured across dozens of towns. Bangladesh rests on 45 cities against 35, so its average is the steadier of the two. Forest figures come from the University of Maryland's Global Forest Change maps.
Frequently asked
Angola vs Bangladesh: your questions answered
Is Angola cleaner than Bangladesh?
On air quality, yes, right now: Angola's cities average AQI 50 against 125 on the US EPA index. These are live readings averaged across cities, so the gap moves with the weather.
Which country has lost more forest, Angola or Bangladesh?
Angola has lost more: about 4.62 million ha of forest from 2001 to 2025, against 263,000 ha in Bangladesh, or 18 times as much. 3.18 million ha of Angola's was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns; the rest burned, was logged or can grow back.
Which country has more tree cover, Angola or Bangladesh?
Bangladesh does: its measured cities average 52.9% tree cover against 11.5%, a gap of 41.4 percentage points.
How many cities are the Angola and Bangladesh figures based on?
35 measured cities in Angola and 45 in Bangladesh. Every one was read the same way, so the two averages are directly comparable, but a country with more measured cities has the more settled figure.
Does this cover the whole of Angola and Bangladesh?
The air and tree figures are not: they are the cities Airleaf has measured, each over the same 2 km radius, so treat them as a comparison of urban air and urban tree cover. The forest figures are: they count every forest in the country.
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