Austria vs Latvia: Annual forest expansion

Austria
7,950 hectares per year
in 2020
Latvia
7,150 hectares per year
in 2020
Austria rank
36th
Latvia rank
39th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Austria
  • Latvia
05.0k10.0k15.0k199020052020

How they compare

Austria currently reports 7,950 hectares per year against 7,150 hectares per year in Latvia, a difference of 800 hectares per year.

That makes Austria's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 36th and Latvia ranks 39th 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).