Ghana vs Peru: Deforestation embedded in trade

Ghana
-19,081 hectares
in 2023
Peru
-17,956 hectares
in 2023
Ghana rank
170th
Peru rank
169th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Ghana
  • Peru
-60.0k-50.0k-40.0k-30.0k-20.0k-10.0k200520142023

How they compare

Peru currently reports -17,956 hectares against -19,081 hectares in Ghana, a difference of 1,125 hectares.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Peru ahead.

Ghana ranks 170th and Peru ranks 169th 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.