Argentina vs Niger: Annual afforestation

Argentina
15,800 hectares per year
in 2020
Niger
15,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Argentina rank
10th
Niger rank
11th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Argentina
  • Niger
010.0k20.0k30.0k199020052020

How they compare

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

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 10th and Niger ranks 11th of 106 countries.

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About this data

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

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