El Salvador vs Mali: Deforestation embedded in trade

El Salvador
4,173 hectares
in 2023
Mali
5,393 hectares
in 2023
El Salvador rank
36th
Mali rank
33rd

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • El Salvador
  • Mali
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How they compare

Mali currently reports 5,393 hectares against 4,173 hectares in El Salvador, a difference of 1,220 hectares.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.3 times El Salvador's.

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

El Salvador ranks 36th and Mali ranks 33rd 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.