Colombia vs Cuba: Annual afforestation

Colombia
140 hectares per year
in 2020
Cuba
320 hectares per year
in 2020
Colombia rank
57th
Cuba rank
54th

Annual afforestation over time

  • Colombia
  • Cuba
010.0k20.0k30.0k199020052020

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 320 hectares per year against 140 hectares per year in Colombia, a difference of 180 hectares per year.

That makes Cuba's figure about 2.3 times Colombia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Colombia ahead.

Colombia ranks 57th and Cuba ranks 54th of 106 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual afforestation
Unit
hectares per year
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
106 places, 530 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Afforestation is the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land that, until then, was not classified as forest.