Cuba vs Panama: Annual forest expansion

Cuba
2,190 hectares per year
in 2020
Panama
2,420 hectares per year
in 2020
Cuba rank
55th
Panama rank
53rd

Annual forest expansion over time

  • Cuba
  • Panama
020.0k40.0k60.0k199020052020

How they compare

Panama currently reports 2,420 hectares per year against 2,190 hectares per year in Cuba, a difference of 230 hectares per year.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.1 times Cuba's.

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

Cuba ranks 55th and Panama ranks 53rd of 110 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual forest expansion
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
110 places, 550 data points, 1990–2020
Last refreshed

Forest expansion is the sum of afforestation (the establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding) and natural forest expansion (expansion of forests through natural succession on land that, until then, was under another land use).