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Trees & air quality in Rwanda
How much tree cover Rwanda'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
- 11.3%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- GitaramaAQI 55
5 cities in Rwanda
Kigali
2 km around Inyarurembo
Tree cover
14%
51.5K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Gisenyi
2 km radius
Musanze
2 km radius
Nyagatare
2 km radius
Gitarama
2 km around Gitarama
Tree cover
19%
33.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Rwanda as a whole
11.3% of Rwanda was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 461.1M trees across 461K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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