Dataset
Annual afforestation
owid.annual-afforestation
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About
Afforestation is the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest.
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Afforestation” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2020
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-12-05
- Units
- hectares per year
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-afforestation
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| _1d_afforestation | number | Afforestation (hectares per year) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |