Gabon vs Norway: Annual forest expansion

Gabon
4,970 hectares per year
in 2020
Norway
4,620 hectares per year
in 2020
Gabon rank
47th
Norway rank
48th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Gabon
  • Norway
2.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k199020052020

How they compare

Gabon currently reports 4,970 hectares per year against 4,620 hectares per year in Norway, a difference of 350 hectares per year.

That makes Gabon's figure about 1.1 times Norway's.

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

Gabon ranks 47th and Norway ranks 48th 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).