Canada vs Chile: Annual afforestation

Canada

1,430 hectares per year

in 2020

Chile

1,040 hectares per year

in 2020

Canada rank

43rd

Chile rank

44th

Annual afforestation over time

Canada currently reports 1,430 hectares per year against 1,040 hectares per year in Chile, a difference of 390 hectares per year.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.4 times Chile's.

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

Canada ranks 43rd and Chile ranks 44th 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.