Latvia vs Ukraine: Annual afforestation

Latvia

4,040 hectares per year

in 2020

Ukraine

3,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Latvia rank

28th

Ukraine rank

31st

Annual afforestation over time

Latvia currently reports 4,040 hectares per year against 3,000 hectares per year in Ukraine, a difference of 1,040 hectares per year.

That makes Latvia's figure about 1.3 times Ukraine's.

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

Latvia ranks 28th and Ukraine ranks 31st 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.