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Trees & air quality in Malawi
How much tree cover Malawi'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
- 22.4%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- KabulaAQI 123
5 cities in Malawi
Lilongwe
2 km around Area 40
Tree cover
8%
69.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Blantyre
2 km around Kabula
Tree cover
20%
47.6K
trees needed
to reach 35%
Mzuzu
2 km radius
Zomba
2 km around Mapale
Tree cover
30%
16.6K
trees needed
to reach 35%
Karonga
2 km around Karonga
Tree cover
15%
42.5K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Malawi as a whole
22.4% of Malawi was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 712.7M trees across 713K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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