Austria vs Germany: Annual forest expansion

Austria
7,950 hectares per year
in 2020
Germany
8,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Austria rank
36th
Germany rank
34th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Austria
  • Germany
02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k199020052020

How they compare

Germany currently reports 8,000 hectares per year against 7,950 hectares per year in Austria, a difference of 50 hectares per year.

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

Austria ranks 36th and Germany ranks 34th 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).