Canada vs Spain: Annual forest expansion
Canada
40,700 hectares per year
in 2020
Spain
34,400 hectares per year
in 2020
Canada rank
13th
Spain rank
16th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Canada
- Spain
How they compare
Canada currently reports 40,700 hectares per year against 34,400 hectares per year in Spain, a difference of 6,300 hectares per year.
That makes Canada's figure about 1.2 times Spain's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Spain ahead.
Canada ranks 13th and Spain ranks 16th 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).