Cameroon vs Tanzania: Drivers of deforestation

Cameroon
9,395 hectares
in 2023
Tanzania
11,494 hectares
in 2023
Cameroon rank
24th
Tanzania rank
22nd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Cameroon
  • Tanzania
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How they compare

Tanzania currently reports 11,494 hectares against 9,395 hectares in Cameroon, a difference of 2,099 hectares.

That makes Tanzania's figure about 1.2 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 22 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 24th and Tanzania ranks 22nd 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.