Congo vs North Korea: Deforestation embedded in trade

Congo
321.59 hectares
in 2023
North Korea
390.54 hectares
in 2023
Congo rank
113th
North Korea rank
112th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Congo
  • North Korea
010.0k20.0k30.0k200520142023

How they compare

North Korea currently reports 390.54 hectares against 321.59 hectares in Congo, a difference of 68.95 hectares.

That makes North Korea's figure about 1.2 times Congo's.

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

Congo ranks 113th and North Korea ranks 112th 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.