Democratic Republic of Congo vs Iceland: Annual afforestation

Democratic Republic of Congo

610 hectares per year

in 2020

Iceland

920 hectares per year

in 2020

Democratic Republic of Congo rank

48th

Iceland rank

47th

Annual afforestation over time

Iceland currently reports 920 hectares per year against 610 hectares per year in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 310 hectares per year.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.5 times Democratic Republic of Congo's.

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

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 48th 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.