Botswana vs Gambia: Deforestation embedded in trade

Botswana
1,243 hectares
in 2023
Gambia
1,203 hectares
in 2023
Botswana rank
96th
Gambia rank
98th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Botswana
  • Gambia
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k200520142023

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1,243 hectares against 1,203 hectares in Gambia, a difference of 40.41 hectares.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 96th and Gambia ranks 98th 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.