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
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
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).