In 2021, forest area as a share of land area for Austria was 47.3 %. Between 2002 and 2021, forest area as a share of land area of Austria grew substantially from 46.6 to 47.3 % rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 0.09% in 2011 and then decreased to 0.09% in 2021.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.