Cyprus vs Jamaica: Annual afforestation

Cyprus

30 hectares per year

in 2020

Jamaica

10 hectares per year

in 2020

Cyprus rank

61st

Jamaica rank

64th

Annual afforestation over time

Cyprus currently reports 30 hectares per year against 10 hectares per year in Jamaica, a difference of 20 hectares per year.

That makes Cyprus's figure about 3.0 times Jamaica's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Cyprus has been ahead every year.

Cyprus ranks 61st and Jamaica ranks 64th 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.