Angola vs Brazil: Drivers of deforestation

Angola
74,391 hectares
in 2023
Brazil
1.15 million hectares
in 2023
Angola rank
2nd
Brazil rank
1st

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Angola
  • Brazil
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 1.15 million hectares against 74,391 hectares in Angola, a difference of 1.07 million hectares.

That makes Brazil's figure about 15.4 times Angola's.

Across all 15 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.

Angola ranks 2nd and Brazil ranks 1st 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.