Bulgaria vs Gabon: Annual afforestation

Bulgaria

370 hectares per year

in 2020

Gabon

310 hectares per year

in 2020

Bulgaria rank

53rd

Gabon rank

55th

Annual afforestation over time

Bulgaria currently reports 370 hectares per year against 310 hectares per year in Gabon, a difference of 60 hectares per year.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.2 times Gabon's.

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

Bulgaria ranks 53rd and Gabon ranks 55th 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.