Afghanistan vs Lesotho: Drivers of deforestation

Afghanistan
0.4 hectares
in 2023
Lesotho
0.54 hectares
in 2020
Afghanistan rank
147th
Lesotho rank
146th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Lesotho
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How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.54 hectares against 0.4 hectares in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.14 hectares.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.4 times Afghanistan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 14 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 147th and Lesotho ranks 146th of 166 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Drivers of deforestation
Unit
hectares
Source
Singh et al. (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
166 places, 2,829 data points, 2001–2023
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Estimates of commodity-driven deforestation, measured in hectares per year. This includes deforestation caused by the production of agricultural products and forestry, which account for approximately 90% of the world's deforestation.