India vs Italy: Deforestation embedded in trade

India
27,148 hectares
in 2023
Italy
21,684 hectares
in 2023
India rank
8th
Italy rank
9th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • India
  • Italy
20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k120.0k200520142023

How they compare

India currently reports 27,148 hectares against 21,684 hectares in Italy, a difference of 5,465 hectares.

That makes India's figure about 1.3 times Italy's.

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

India ranks 8th and Italy ranks 9th 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.