Austria vs Iceland: Annual afforestation

Austria

490 hectares per year

in 2020

Iceland

920 hectares per year

in 2020

Austria rank

50th

Iceland rank

47th

Annual afforestation over time

Iceland currently reports 920 hectares per year against 490 hectares per year in Austria, a difference of 430 hectares per year.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.9 times Austria's.

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

Austria ranks 50th and Iceland ranks 47th 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.