Austria vs Bulgaria: Annual afforestation

Austria

490 hectares per year

in 2020

Bulgaria

370 hectares per year

in 2020

Austria rank

50th

Bulgaria rank

53rd

Annual afforestation over time

Austria currently reports 490 hectares per year against 370 hectares per year in Bulgaria, a difference of 120 hectares per year.

That makes Austria's figure about 1.3 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Austria ranks 50th and Bulgaria ranks 53rd 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.