Sweden vs Tanzania: Annual forest expansion
Sweden
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Tanzania
0 hectares per year
in 2020
Sweden rank
73rd
Tanzania rank
73rd
Annual forest expansion over time
- Sweden
- Tanzania
How they compare
Sweden currently reports 0 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Tanzania, a difference of 0 hectares per year.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Sweden ahead.
Sweden ranks 73rd and Tanzania ranks 73rd of 110 countries.
Sweden has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Sweden | Tanzania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 21,490 hectares per year | 0 hectares per year | 21,490 hectares per year | Sweden |
| 2000s | 11,820 hectares per year | 0 hectares per year | 11,820 hectares per year | Sweden |
| 2010s | 51,450 hectares per year | 0 hectares per year | 51,450 hectares per year | Sweden |
| 2020s | 0 hectares per year | 0 hectares per year | 0 hectares per year | — |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher annual forest expansion, Sweden or Tanzania?
- Sweden, at 0 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Tanzania as of 2020.
- What is the difference in annual forest expansion between Sweden and Tanzania?
- 0 hectares per year, with Sweden ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Sweden and Tanzania?
- 5 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2020.
- How do Sweden and Tanzania rank globally for annual forest expansion?
- Sweden ranks 73rd and Tanzania ranks 73rd of 110 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Annual forest expansion. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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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).