Portugal vs Spain: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area

Portugal

0.2%

in 2025

Spain

0.2%

in 2025

Portugal rank

45th

Spain rank

46th

Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area over time

Portugal currently reports 0.2% against 0.2% in Spain, a difference of 0.0%.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Spain ahead.

Portugal ranks 45th and Spain ranks 46th of 228 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in forest area as a share of forest area
Unit: %
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: 228 places, 7,980 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual net change in forest area measures forest expansion (the sum of afforestation and natural expansion) minus deforestation.