Norway vs Romania: Annual forest expansion

Norway
4,620 hectares per year
in 2020
Romania
5,640 hectares per year
in 2020
Norway rank
48th
Romania rank
46th

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Norway
  • Romania
020.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k199020052020

How they compare

Romania currently reports 5,640 hectares per year against 4,620 hectares per year in Norway, a difference of 1,020 hectares per year.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.2 times Norway's.

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

Norway ranks 48th and Romania ranks 46th 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).