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Trees & air quality in Benin
How much tree cover Benin's major cities have, what their air quality is right now, and how many more trees each one needs. Every report covers the same 2 km area, so the cities compare like for like.
- Cities tracked
- 5
- National forest cover
- 26.5%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- AbomeyAQI 56
5 cities in Benin
Porto-Novo
2 km radius
Cotonou
2 km around Todote
Tree cover
7%
71.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Parakou
2 km around Ladjifarani
Tree cover
26%
12.9K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Abomey
2 km around Abomey
Tree cover
39%
None
trees needed
Healthy tree cover
Djougou
2 km around Djougou
Tree cover
7%
71.9K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Benin as a whole
26.5% of Benin was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 397.6M trees across 398K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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