Jamaica vs Rwanda: Forest area

Jamaica

616,310 hectares

in 2025

Rwanda

634,630 hectares

in 2025

Jamaica rank

140th

Rwanda rank

139th

Forest area over time

Jamaica
Rwanda

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 634,630 hectares against 616,310 hectares in Jamaica, a difference of 18,320 hectares.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Jamaica ahead.

Jamaica ranks 140th and Rwanda ranks 139th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Jamaica
Forest area in Rwanda
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Forest area
Unit: hectares
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: 235 places, 8,460 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems.