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Puerto Rico vs Vanuatu: Deforestation embedded in trade

Puerto Rico
-11.96 hectares
in 2023
Vanuatu
-7.74 hectares
in 2023
Puerto Rico rank
135th
Vanuatu rank
134th

Deforestation embedded in trade over time

  • Puerto Rico
  • Vanuatu
-40-30-20-100200520142023

How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports -7.74 hectares against -11.96 hectares in Puerto Rico, a difference of 4.22 hectares.

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

Puerto Rico ranks 135th and Vanuatu ranks 134th 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.