Angola vs Laos: Deforestation embedded in trade

Angola
-6,006 hectares
in 2023
Laos
-5,462 hectares
in 2023
Angola rank
161st
Laos rank
158th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Angola
  • Laos
-40.0k-30.0k-20.0k-10.0k010.0k200520142023

How they compare

Laos currently reports -5,462 hectares against -6,006 hectares in Angola, a difference of 543.87 hectares.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Angola ahead.

Angola ranks 161st and Laos ranks 158th of 178 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Deforestation embedded in trade
Unit
hectares
Source
Singh et al. (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
178 places, 3,320 data points, 2005–2023
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Deforestation driven by imported goods minus exported goods from agriculture and forest plantations. Net importers of deforestation are countries who contribute to net deforestation in other countries – the deforestation that they cause in other countries is given as a positive value.