Denmark vs Ireland: Annual afforestation

Denmark

4,260 hectares per year

in 2020

Ireland

5,660 hectares per year

in 2020

Denmark rank

27th

Ireland rank

26th

Annual afforestation over time

Ireland currently reports 5,660 hectares per year against 4,260 hectares per year in Denmark, a difference of 1,400 hectares per year.

That makes Ireland's figure about 1.3 times Denmark's.

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

Denmark ranks 27th and Ireland ranks 26th 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.