Iceland vs Liechtenstein: Annual forest expansion

Iceland
960 hectares per year
in 2020
Liechtenstein
400 hectares per year
in 2020
Iceland rank
62nd
Liechtenstein rank
64th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Iceland
  • Liechtenstein
05001.0k1.5k199020052020

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 960 hectares per year against 400 hectares per year in Liechtenstein, a difference of 560 hectares per year.

That makes Iceland's figure about 2.4 times Liechtenstein's.

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

Iceland ranks 62nd and Liechtenstein ranks 64th 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).