Ecuador vs Sweden: Deforestation embedded in trade

Ecuador
3,877 hectares
in 2023
Sweden
3,711 hectares
in 2023
Ecuador rank
38th
Sweden rank
39th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Ecuador
  • Sweden
-5.0k05.0k10.0k200520142023

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 3,877 hectares against 3,711 hectares in Sweden, a difference of 165.78 hectares.

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

Ecuador ranks 38th and Sweden ranks 39th 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
Last refreshed

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.