Honduras vs Spain: Annual forest expansion

Honduras
20,640 hectares per year
in 2020
Spain
34,400 hectares per year
in 2020
Honduras rank
19th
Spain rank
16th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Honduras
  • Spain
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How they compare

Spain currently reports 34,400 hectares per year against 20,640 hectares per year in Honduras, a difference of 13,760 hectares per year.

That makes Spain's figure about 1.7 times Honduras's.

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

Honduras ranks 19th and Spain ranks 16th 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).