Gabon vs Romania: Annual forest expansion

Gabon
4,970 hectares per year
in 2020
Romania
5,640 hectares per year
in 2020
Gabon rank
47th
Romania rank
46th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Gabon
  • Romania
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How they compare

Romania currently reports 5,640 hectares per year against 4,970 hectares per year in Gabon, a difference of 670 hectares per year.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Gabon ahead.

Gabon ranks 47th and Romania ranks 46th 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).