Estonia vs Guinea: Annual afforestation

Estonia

970 hectares per year

in 2020

Guinea

1,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Estonia rank

46th

Guinea rank

45th

Annual afforestation over time

Guinea currently reports 1,000 hectares per year against 970 hectares per year in Estonia, a difference of 30 hectares per year.

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

Estonia ranks 46th and Guinea ranks 45th 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.