Ethiopia vs Kenya: Deforestation embedded in trade

Ethiopia
3,374 hectares
in 2023
Kenya
3,565 hectares
in 2023
Ethiopia rank
45th
Kenya rank
42nd

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Kenya
-5.0k05.0k10.0k200520142023

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 3,565 hectares against 3,374 hectares in Ethiopia, a difference of 190.16 hectares.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.1 times Ethiopia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 45th and Kenya ranks 42nd 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.