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Democratic Republic of Congo vs Iceland: Annual forest expansion

Democratic Republic of Congo
610 hectares per year
in 2020
Iceland
960 hectares per year
in 2020
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
63rd
Iceland rank
62nd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Iceland
5001.0k1.5k2.0k199020052020

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 960 hectares per year against 610 hectares per year in Democratic Republic of Congo, a difference of 350 hectares per year.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.6 times Democratic Republic of Congo's.

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

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 63rd and Iceland ranks 62nd 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).