The Amazon in Numbers That Matter

The Amazon Rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers and holds roughly 400 billion trees across 16,000 species. Its river discharges 209,000 cubic meters of water every second, and more than 400 indigenous groups live beneath its canopy, some still uncontacted. The site data also tracks the pressure: deforestation claims around 10,000 square kilometers a year.

Next door in the rankings, the Congo Rainforest spans 2 million square kilometers as the second largest tropical forest. Explore the numbers, then see which forests are winning and losing..