Canada vs Mexico: Annual forest expansion

Canada
40,700 hectares per year
in 2020
Mexico
38,050 hectares per year
in 2020
Canada rank
13th
Mexico rank
14th

Annual forest expansion over time

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

How they compare

Canada currently reports 40,700 hectares per year against 38,050 hectares per year in Mexico, a difference of 2,650 hectares per year.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Mexico's.

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

Canada ranks 13th and Mexico ranks 14th 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).