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
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
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).