Portugal vs Spain: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita

Portugal

0.2%

in 2025

Spain

0.2%

in 2025

Portugal rank

44th

Spain rank

45th

Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita 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 44th and Spain ranks 45th of 227 countries.

Indicator: Annual change in forest area vs. GDP per capita
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: 227 places, 7,945 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.