Argentina vs Uruguay: Annual afforestation

Argentina

15,800 hectares per year

in 2020

Uruguay

15,980 hectares per year

in 2020

Argentina rank

10th

Uruguay rank

9th

Annual afforestation over time

Uruguay currently reports 15,980 hectares per year against 15,800 hectares per year in Argentina, a difference of 180 hectares per year.

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

Argentina ranks 10th and Uruguay ranks 9th 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.