Chile vs Iceland: Annual afforestation

Chile

1,040 hectares per year

in 2020

Iceland

920 hectares per year

in 2020

Chile rank

44th

Iceland rank

47th

Annual afforestation over time

Chile currently reports 1,040 hectares per year against 920 hectares per year in Iceland, a difference of 120 hectares per year.

That makes Chile's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Chile has been ahead every year.

Chile ranks 44th 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.