Spain vs Ukraine: Annual afforestation

Spain

2,800 hectares per year

in 2020

Ukraine

3,000 hectares per year

in 2020

Spain rank

32nd

Ukraine rank

31st

Annual afforestation over time

Ukraine currently reports 3,000 hectares per year against 2,800 hectares per year in Spain, a difference of 200 hectares per year.

That makes Ukraine's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.

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

Spain ranks 32nd 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.