Netherlands vs Poland: Annual forest expansion

Netherlands
7,290 hectares per year
in 2020
Poland
7,790 hectares per year
in 2020
Netherlands rank
38th
Poland rank
37th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Netherlands
  • Poland
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How they compare

Poland currently reports 7,790 hectares per year against 7,290 hectares per year in Netherlands, a difference of 500 hectares per year.

That makes Poland's figure about 1.1 times Netherlands's.

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

Netherlands ranks 38th and Poland ranks 37th 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).