Guinea vs Iceland: Annual forest expansion

Guinea
1,000 hectares per year
in 2020
Iceland
960 hectares per year
in 2020
Guinea rank
61st
Iceland rank
62nd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Guinea
  • Iceland
5001.0k1.5k2.0k199020052020

How they compare

Guinea currently reports 1,000 hectares per year against 960 hectares per year in Iceland, a difference of 40 hectares per year.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Guinea has been ahead every year.

Guinea ranks 61st and Iceland ranks 62nd 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).