Congo vs Guatemala: Annual afforestation

Congo
14,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Guatemala
9,940 hectares per year
in 2020
Congo rank
13th
Guatemala rank
16th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Congo
  • Guatemala
05.0k10.0k15.0k199020052020

How they compare

Congo currently reports 14,000 hectares per year against 9,940 hectares per year in Guatemala, a difference of 4,060 hectares per year.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.4 times Guatemala's.

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

Congo ranks 13th and Guatemala ranks 16th of 106 countries.

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About this data

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

Afforestation is the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest.