Belize vs Suriname: Drivers of deforestation

Belize
335.35 hectares
in 2023
Suriname
437.05 hectares
in 2023
Belize rank
62nd
Suriname rank
60th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Belize
  • Suriname
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How they compare

Suriname currently reports 437.05 hectares against 335.35 hectares in Belize, a difference of 101.7 hectares.

That makes Suriname's figure about 1.3 times Belize's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 11 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Belize ahead.

Belize ranks 62nd and Suriname ranks 60th 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.