Chile vs Latvia: Annual forest expansion
Chile
6,150 hectares per year
in 2020
Latvia
7,150 hectares per year
in 2020
Chile rank
42nd
Latvia rank
39th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Chile
- Latvia
How they compare
Latvia currently reports 7,150 hectares per year against 6,150 hectares per year in Chile, a difference of 1,000 hectares per year.
That makes Latvia's figure about 1.2 times Chile's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Chile ahead.
Chile ranks 42nd and Latvia ranks 39th 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).