Cameroon vs Madagascar: Deforestation embedded in trade

Cameroon
-5,456 hectares
in 2023
Madagascar
-4,947 hectares
in 2023
Cameroon rank
157th
Madagascar rank
156th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Cameroon
  • Madagascar
-20.0k-15.0k-10.0k-5.0k0200520142023

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports -4,947 hectares against -5,456 hectares in Cameroon, a difference of 509.18 hectares.

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

Cameroon ranks 157th and Madagascar ranks 156th 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.