Argentina vs Uruguay: Annual forest expansion

Argentina
15,800 hectares per year
in 2020
Uruguay
18,370 hectares per year
in 2020
Argentina rank
21st
Uruguay rank
20th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Argentina
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 18,370 hectares per year against 15,800 hectares per year in Argentina, a difference of 2,570 hectares per year.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.2 times Argentina's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Uruguay has been ahead every year.

Argentina ranks 21st and Uruguay ranks 20th of 110 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual forest expansion
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
110 places, 550 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Forest expansion is the sum of afforestation (the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding) and natural forest expansion (expansion of forests through natural succession on land that, until then, was under another land use).