Mexico vs Spain: Annual afforestation

Mexico
3,300 hectares per year
in 2020
Spain
2,800 hectares per year
in 2020
Mexico rank
30th
Spain rank
32nd

Annual afforestation over time

  • Mexico
  • Spain
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k199020052020

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 3,300 hectares per year against 2,800 hectares per year in Spain, a difference of 500 hectares per year.

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

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

Mexico ranks 30th and Spain ranks 32nd 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.