Chile vs Ireland: Annual forest expansion

Chile
6,150 hectares per year
in 2020
Ireland
5,910 hectares per year
in 2020
Chile rank
42nd
Ireland rank
44th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Chile
  • Ireland
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k199020052020

How they compare

Chile currently reports 6,150 hectares per year against 5,910 hectares per year in Ireland, a difference of 240 hectares per year.

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

Chile ranks 42nd and Ireland ranks 44th 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).