Botswana vs Senegal: Drivers of deforestation

Botswana
1.29 hectares
in 2023
Senegal
1.44 hectares
in 2023
Botswana rank
135th
Senegal rank
134th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Botswana
  • Senegal
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How they compare

Senegal currently reports 1.44 hectares against 1.29 hectares in Botswana, a difference of 0.15 hectares.

That makes Senegal's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 20 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 135th and Senegal ranks 134th 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
Last refreshed

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.