Ecuador vs Jamaica: Annual afforestation

Ecuador

0 hectares per year

in 2020

Jamaica

10 hectares per year

in 2020

Ecuador rank

67th

Jamaica rank

64th

Annual afforestation over time

Jamaica currently reports 10 hectares per year against 0 hectares per year in Ecuador, a difference of 10 hectares per year.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 67th 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.