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Cape Verde vs Iran: Drivers of deforestation

Cape Verde
1.27 hectares
in 2020
Iran
1.16 hectares
in 2023
Cape Verde rank
136th
Iran rank
139th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Iran
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How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 1.27 hectares against 1.16 hectares in Iran, a difference of 0.11 hectares.

That makes Cape Verde's figure about 1.1 times Iran's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 7 shared years of data; in 2011 it was Iran ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 136th and Iran ranks 139th 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.