Country comparison · 339 cities measured
Angola vs Brazil Air quality index (AQI) and deforestation
Brazil has cleaner air than Angola right now: its cities average AQI 38 against 50.
Brazil has lost more forest since 2001. Brazil has more tree cover in its cities.
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
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Head to head
Angola vs Brazil at a glance
Brazil is ahead on 3 of 5 measures, and Angola on 2. The better figure in each row is marked.
| Angola | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Average air qualityUS AQI, all measured cities. | 50 | 38 (better) |
| Cities over AQI 100Not fine for sensitive groups. | 3% | 1% (better) |
| Forest lost since 2001The whole country. | 4.62 million ha (better) | 76.6 million ha |
| Share of its forest lostOf what it had in 2000. | 8.3% (better) | 15% |
| Average tree coverAcross its measured cities. | 11.5% | 26.2% (better) |
Air quality today
Is Brazil cleaner than Angola?
On air quality, yes, right now. Brazil has cleaner air than Angola right now: its cities average AQI 38 against 50.
3% of the measured cities in Angola are over AQI 100 today, the point where the air stops being fine for sensitive groups, against 1% in Brazil.
How each country's cities split across the air quality bands
Angola
- Good17 (49%)
- Moderate17 (49%)
- Unhealthy for sensitive groups1 (3%)
Brazil
- Good200 (66%)
- Moderate100 (33%)
- Unhealthy for sensitive groups3 (1%)
- Unhealthy1 (0%)
Every measured city, including model estimates where no ground station is near.
Against everywhere else
How do Angola and Brazil 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 Brazil than 75%.
Cleaner air than…
- Angola
- Beats 54%
- Brazil
- Beats 75%
More tree cover than…
- Angola
- Beats 22%
- Brazil
- Beats 55%
Deforestation · 2001–2025
Which country has lost more forest, Angola or Brazil?
Brazil has lost more: about 76.6 million ha of forest from 2001 to 2025, against 4.62 million ha in Angola, or 17 times as much. 56.2 million ha of Brazil'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: 2016, with 5.41 million ha lost.
| Angola | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Forest lost since 2001Cleared, burned or logged. | 4.62 million ha (better) | 76.6 million ha |
| Share of its forestOf what it had in 2000. | 8.3% (better) | 15% |
| Cleared for goodTurned into farms, mines or towns. | 3.18 million ha (better) | 56.2 million ha |
| Recent trend2021–2025 against the five years before. | Speeding up | Holding steady |
| Main known cause | Farms, pasture and plantations (68%) | Farms, pasture and plantations (73%) |
Trees
Which country has more tree cover, Angola or Brazil?
Brazil does: its measured cities average 26.2% tree cover against 11.5%, a gap of 14.7 percentage points.
| Angola | Brazil | |
|---|---|---|
| Trees standingSummed across measured cities. | 1.2M | 23.7M (better) |
| Cities below their targetShort of the canopy target. | 97% | 68% (better) |
| Trees still neededTo reach those targets. | 1.9M (better) | 7.4M |
Behind the averages
The cities behind Angola and Brazil
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
Brazil
- Greenest measured city
- Petrópolis73.8% tree cover
- Worst air right now
- Duque de CaxiasAQI 185
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 304 in Brazil, 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. Brazil rests on 304 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 Brazil: your questions answered
Is Brazil cleaner than Angola?
On air quality, yes, right now: Brazil's cities average AQI 38 against 50 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 Brazil?
Brazil has lost more: about 76.6 million ha of forest from 2001 to 2025, against 4.62 million ha in Angola, or 17 times as much. 56.2 million ha of Brazil'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 Brazil?
Brazil does: its measured cities average 26.2% tree cover against 11.5%, a gap of 14.7 percentage points.
How many cities are the Angola and Brazil figures based on?
35 measured cities in Angola and 304 in Brazil. 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 Brazil?
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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