Canada vs Guatemala: Annual forest expansion

Canada
40,700 hectares per year
in 2020
Guatemala
47,910 hectares per year
in 2020
Canada rank
13th
Guatemala rank
10th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Canada
  • Guatemala
0200.0k400.0k600.0k199020052020

How they compare

Guatemala currently reports 47,910 hectares per year against 40,700 hectares per year in Canada, a difference of 7,210 hectares per year.

That makes Guatemala's figure about 1.2 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 13th and Guatemala ranks 10th 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).