Ethiopia vs Uruguay: Annual forest expansion
Ethiopia
34,280 hectares per year
in 2020
Uruguay
18,370 hectares per year
in 2020
Ethiopia rank
17th
Uruguay rank
20th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Ethiopia
- Uruguay
How they compare
Ethiopia currently reports 34,280 hectares per year against 18,370 hectares per year in Uruguay, a difference of 15,910 hectares per year.
That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.9 times Uruguay's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Uruguay ahead.
Ethiopia ranks 17th and Uruguay ranks 20th 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).