China vs India: Annual forest expansion
China
1.89 million hectares per year
in 2020
India
674,000 hectares per year
in 2020
China rank
1st
India rank
4th
Annual forest expansion over time
- China
- India
How they compare
China currently reports 1.89 million hectares per year against 674,000 hectares per year in India, a difference of 1.21 million hectares per year.
That makes China's figure about 2.8 times India's.
Across all 5 years both countries report, China has been ahead every year.
China ranks 1st and India ranks 4th 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).