Portugal vs Uruguay: Annual afforestation

Portugal

30,430 hectares per year

in 2020

Uruguay

15,980 hectares per year

in 2020

Portugal rank

7th

Uruguay rank

9th

Annual afforestation over time

Portugal currently reports 30,430 hectares per year against 15,980 hectares per year in Uruguay, a difference of 14,450 hectares per year.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.9 times Uruguay's.

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

Portugal ranks 7th and Uruguay ranks 9th 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.