Bulgaria vs Romania: Annual afforestation

Bulgaria

370 hectares per year

in 2020

Romania

480 hectares per year

in 2020

Bulgaria rank

53rd

Romania rank

51st

Annual afforestation over time

Romania currently reports 480 hectares per year against 370 hectares per year in Bulgaria, a difference of 110 hectares per year.

That makes Romania'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.

Bulgaria ranks 53rd 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.