Germany vs Hungary: Annual forest expansion

Germany
8,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Hungary
9,030 hectares per year
in 2020
Germany rank
34th
Hungary rank
31st

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Germany
  • Hungary
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How they compare

Hungary currently reports 9,030 hectares per year against 8,000 hectares per year in Germany, a difference of 1,030 hectares per year.

That makes Hungary's figure about 1.1 times Germany's.

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

Germany ranks 34th and Hungary ranks 31st 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).