Natural forest expansion

thousand hectares, 1990–2015

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    1990 Ranking
    1. China 1,128.54
    2. Mexico 464.00
    3. Australia 374.05
    4. Sudan 226.98
    5. Spain 185.15
    6. Vietnam 123.40
    7. United States 48.90
    8. Belarus 42.56
    9. Dominican Republic 35.60
    10. Russia 31.86
    11. Turkey 16.06
    12. Sweden 12.62
    13. Bhutan 9.91
    14. Finland 8.65
    15. Austria 8.00
    16. Nepal 7.00
    17. Latvia 6.80
    18. Uzbekistan 5.80
    19. Hungary 5.35
    20. Slovenia 4.50
    21. Germany 4.00
    22. Chile 3.60
    23. Switzerland 3.46
    24. Croatia 3.27
    25. Estonia 2.79
    26. Kyrgyzstan 2.30
    27. Norway 2.06
    28. Bulgaria 1.90
    29. Iraq 1.40
    30. New Zealand 1.30
    31. Jamaica 0.86
    32. Singapore 0.50
    33. Azerbaijan 0.40
    34. Albania 0.40
    35. Ireland 0.25
    36. Georgia 0.23
    37. Guadeloupe 0.16
    38. Mongolia 0.14
    39. Serbia 0.14
    40. Luxembourg 0.09
    41. Iceland 0.04
    42. Martinique 0.02
    2015 Ranking
    1. China 1,002.19
    2. Chile 129.89
    3. Sudan 93.92
    4. Russia 76.23
    5. Turkey 38.98
    6. Mexico 34.75
    7. Belarus 25.05
    8. Vietnam 20.30
    9. Costa Rica 14.26
    10. Norway 13.47
    11. Bulgaria 11.90
    12. Montenegro 11.70
    13. Austria 9.10
    14. Kyrgyzstan 8.91
    15. Estonia 6.79
    16. Azerbaijan 5.00
    17. Uzbekistan 4.40
    18. New Zealand 3.90
    19. Jamaica 3.53
    20. Croatia 3.44
    21. Switzerland 3.36
    22. Spain 3.28
    23. Germany 3.00
    24. Latvia 2.28
    25. Bhutan 2.21
    26. Belgium 1.50
    27. Hungary 1.12
    28. Lithuania 0.87
    29. Ukraine 0.70
    30. Martinique 0.36
    31. Ireland 0.25
    32. Serbia 0.23
    33. Guadeloupe 0.19
    34. Mongolia 0.10
    35. Singapore 0.06
    36. Iceland 0.04

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    Expansion of forest through natural succession on land that, until then, was under a different land use,. Implies a transformation of land use form non-forest to forest (e.g. forest succession on land previously used for agriculture).

    Source: Global Forest Resources Assessment