Croatia vs Cyprus: Annual afforestation

Croatia

80 hectares per year

in 2020

Cyprus

30 hectares per year

in 2020

Croatia rank

59th

Cyprus rank

61st

Annual afforestation over time

Croatia currently reports 80 hectares per year against 30 hectares per year in Cyprus, a difference of 50 hectares per year.

That makes Croatia's figure about 2.7 times Cyprus's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Croatia ahead.

Croatia ranks 59th and Cyprus ranks 61st of 106 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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