Mexico vs Spain: Annual forest expansion
Mexico
38,050 hectares per year
in 2020
Spain
34,400 hectares per year
in 2020
Mexico rank
14th
Spain rank
16th
Annual forest expansion over time
- Mexico
- Spain
How they compare
Mexico currently reports 38,050 hectares per year against 34,400 hectares per year in Spain, a difference of 3,650 hectares per year.
That makes Mexico's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Mexico ahead.
Mexico ranks 14th and Spain ranks 16th of 110 countries.
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About this data
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).