Guatemala vs Uganda: Annual afforestation

Guatemala

9,940 hectares per year

in 2020

Uganda

9,840 hectares per year

in 2020

Guatemala rank

16th

Uganda rank

17th

Annual afforestation over time

Guatemala currently reports 9,940 hectares per year against 9,840 hectares per year in Uganda, a difference of 100 hectares per year.

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

Guatemala ranks 16th and Uganda ranks 17th 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.