Latvia vs Mexico: Annual afforestation

Latvia
4,040 hectares per year
in 2020
Mexico
3,300 hectares per year
in 2020
Latvia rank
28th
Mexico rank
30th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Latvia
  • Mexico
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k199020052020

How they compare

Latvia currently reports 4,040 hectares per year against 3,300 hectares per year in Mexico, a difference of 740 hectares per year.

That makes Latvia's figure about 1.2 times Mexico's.

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

Latvia ranks 28th and Mexico ranks 30th 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.