Denmark vs Latvia: Annual afforestation

Denmark

4,260 hectares per year

in 2020

Latvia

4,040 hectares per year

in 2020

Denmark rank

27th

Latvia rank

28th

Annual afforestation over time

Denmark currently reports 4,260 hectares per year against 4,040 hectares per year in Latvia, a difference of 220 hectares per year.

That makes Denmark's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.

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

Denmark ranks 27th and Latvia ranks 28th 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.