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Trees & air quality in Nigeria
How much tree cover Nigeria'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
- 23.2%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- Kano CityAQI 167
5 cities in Nigeria
Abuja
2 km around Central Business Dis
Tree cover
39%
None
trees needed
Healthy tree cover
Lagos
2 km radius
Kano
2 km around Kano City
Tree cover
7%
104K
trees needed
to reach 40%
Ibadan
2 km radius
Port Harcourt
2 km radius
Nigeria as a whole
23.2% of Nigeria was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 6.2B trees across 6.2M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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