Chile vs Saudi Arabia: Annual afforestation

Chile

1,040 hectares per year

in 2020

Saudi Arabia

1,500 hectares per year

in 2020

Chile rank

44th

Saudi Arabia rank

42nd

Annual afforestation over time

Saudi Arabia currently reports 1,500 hectares per year against 1,040 hectares per year in Chile, a difference of 460 hectares per year.

That makes Saudi Arabia'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.

Chile ranks 44th and Saudi Arabia ranks 42nd 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.