Burkina Faso vs Niger: Drivers of deforestation

Burkina Faso
0.03 hectares
in 2012
Niger
0.04 hectares
in 2007
Burkina Faso rank
161st
Niger rank
159th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Burkina Faso
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 0.04 hectares against 0.03 hectares in Burkina Faso, a difference of 0.01 hectares.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.3 times Burkina Faso's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 5 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Burkina Faso ahead.

Burkina Faso ranks 161st and Niger ranks 159th 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.