Austria vs Romania: Annual afforestation

Austria

490 hectares per year

in 2020

Romania

480 hectares per year

in 2020

Austria rank

50th

Romania rank

51st

Annual afforestation over time

Austria currently reports 490 hectares per year against 480 hectares per year in Romania, a difference of 10 hectares per year.

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

Austria ranks 50th and Romania ranks 51st 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.