Afforestation

thousand hectares, 1990–2015

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    1990 Ranking
    1. China 1,185.00
    2. South Africa 218.00
    3. Spain 133.78
    4. Vietnam 117.46
    5. Chile 63.61
    6. New Zealand 62.00
    7. United States 59.73
    8. Australia 45.34
    9. Peru 45.21
    10. Uzbekistan 35.40
    11. Mauritania 32.28
    12. Thailand 26.70
    13. Argentina 23.00
    14. Turkey 22.65
    15. Venezuela 16.35
    16. Ireland 16.00
    17. Italy 14.88
    18. Guinea 12.00
    19. Uganda 9.84
    20. Finland 9.00
    21. Sweden 8.87
    22. Ukraine 8.00
    23. Germany 8.00
    24. Bangladesh 7.50
    25. Canada 7.33
    26. Colombia 6.87
    27. Tunisia 6.71
    28. Belarus 6.68
    29. Hungary 6.21
    30. Mali 5.00
    31. Azerbaijan 4.80
    32. Costa Rica 4.77
    33. Denmark 4.05
    34. Nepal 4.00
    35. Madagascar 3.60
    36. Bulgaria 2.90
    37. Morocco 2.90
    38. Dominican Republic 2.78
    39. Netherlands 2.56
    40. Niger 2.50
    41. Panama 2.42
    42. Kyrgyzstan 2.15
    43. Slovakia 2.09
    44. Austria 1.70
    45. Serbia 1.67
    46. Iceland 1.23
    47. Romania 1.13
    48. Togo 1.00
    49. Norway 0.96
    50. Mexico 0.78
    51. Estonia 0.70
    52. Georgia 0.60
    53. Moldova 0.43
    54. Cameroon 0.30
    55. Croatia 0.27
    56. Cyprus 0.26
    57. Nicaragua 0.20
    58. Martinique 0.15
    59. Mongolia 0.11
    60. Switzerland 0.08
    61. Mayotte 0.03
    62. Liechtenstein 0.03
    63. Bhutan 0.02
    2015 Ranking
    1. China 1,067.80
    2. Vietnam 97.54
    3. Azerbaijan 95.52
    4. Turkey 80.20
    5. Uzbekistan 26.90
    6. Argentina 21.00
    7. Venezuela 17.87
    8. Sweden 13.05
    9. New Zealand 12.00
    10. Morocco 11.56
    11. Uganda 9.84
    12. Peru 6.26
    13. Ukraine 6.00
    14. Nicaragua 5.03
    15. Spain 4.66
    16. Ireland 4.60
    17. Burma (Myanmar) 4.21
    18. Germany 4.00
    19. Kyrgyzstan 3.80
    20. Mexico 3.30
    21. Netherlands 3.12
    22. South Africa 3.00
    23. Niger 2.50
    24. Mauritania 2.50
    25. Chile 2.44
    26. Costa Rica 2.11
    27. Tunisia 2.10
    28. Lithuania 2.07
    29. Togo 2.00
    30. Cameroon 2.00
    31. Latvia 1.95
    32. Belarus 1.77
    33. Estonia 1.70
    34. Denmark 1.37
    35. Cape Verde 1.12
    36. Panama 1.08
    37. Colombia 0.68
    38. Iceland 0.60
    39. Romania 0.48
    40. Hungary 0.46
    41. Serbia 0.37
    42. Moldova 0.36
    43. Israel 0.35
    44. Montenegro 0.30
    45. Mongolia 0.30
    46. Austria 0.30
    47. Djibouti 0.20
    48. Bhutan 0.20
    49. Norway 0.15
    50. Slovakia 0.12
    51. Bulgaria 0.10
    52. Afghanistan 0.07
    53. Croatia 0.03
    54. Liechtenstein 0.03
    55. Cyprus 0.01
    56. Mayotte 0.01
    57. Jamaica 0.01

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    Establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was under a different land use. Implies a transformation of land use form non-forest to forest.

    Source: Global Forest Resources Assessment