Angola vs Peru: Drivers of deforestation

Angola
74,391 hectares
in 2023
Peru
49,590 hectares
in 2023
Angola rank
2nd
Peru rank
3rd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Angola
  • Peru
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How they compare

Angola currently reports 74,391 hectares against 49,590 hectares in Peru, a difference of 24,802 hectares.

That makes Angola's figure about 1.5 times Peru's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 15 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Peru ahead.

Angola ranks 2nd and Peru ranks 3rd 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.