Guinea vs Iceland: Annual afforestation

Guinea

1,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Iceland

920 hectares per year

in 2020

Guinea rank

45th

Iceland rank

47th

Annual afforestation over time

Guinea currently reports 1,000 hectares per year against 920 hectares per year in Iceland, a difference of 80 hectares per year.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Guinea has been ahead every year.

Guinea ranks 45th 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.