Argentina vs Congo: Annual afforestation

Argentina

15,800 hectares per year

in 2020

Congo

14,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Argentina rank

10th

Congo rank

13th

Annual afforestation over time

Argentina currently reports 15,800 hectares per year against 14,000 hectares per year in Congo, a difference of 1,800 hectares per year.

That makes Argentina's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Argentina has been ahead every year.

Argentina ranks 10th and Congo ranks 13th of 106 countries.

Indicator: Annual afforestation
Unit: hectares per year
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 106 places, 530 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Afforestation is the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest.