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Trees & air quality in Iraq
How much tree cover Iraq'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
- 1.9%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- Al Khalij Al Arabi Al ThalithAQI 125
5 cities in Iraq
Baghdad
2 km around Shaikh Omar
Tree cover
2%
83.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Al Mawşil al Jadīdah
2 km radius
Erbil
2 km around Qalat
Tree cover
5%
77.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Basrah
2 km around Al Khalij Al Arabi Al Thalith
Tree cover
1%
107K
trees needed
to reach 35%
Karbala
2 km around Karbala
Tree cover
10%
62.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Iraq as a whole
1.9% of Iraq was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 12.2B trees across 12.2M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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