Denmark vs Switzerland: Annual forest expansion

Denmark
4,260 hectares per year
in 2020
Switzerland
2,880 hectares per year
in 2020
Denmark rank
50th
Switzerland rank
51st

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Denmark
  • Switzerland
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How they compare

Denmark currently reports 4,260 hectares per year against 2,880 hectares per year in Switzerland, a difference of 1,380 hectares per year.

That makes Denmark's figure about 1.5 times Switzerland's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Switzerland ahead.

Denmark ranks 50th and Switzerland ranks 51st 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).