Iraq vs Libya: Annual forest expansion

Iraq
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Libya
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Iraq rank
73rd
Libya rank
73rd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Iraq
  • Libya
05001.0k1.5k199020052020

How they compare

Iraq currently reports 0 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Libya, a difference of 0 hectares per year.

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

Iraq ranks 73rd and Libya ranks 73rd 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).