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Australia vs Papua New Guinea: Drivers of deforestation

Australia
4,457 hectares
in 2023
Papua New Guinea
4,645 hectares
in 2023
Australia rank
35th
Papua New Guinea rank
33rd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Australia
  • Papua New Guinea
02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k200120122023

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 4,645 hectares against 4,457 hectares in Australia, a difference of 188.39 hectares.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 10 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 35th and Papua New Guinea ranks 33rd 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.