Congo vs Ecuador: Drivers of deforestation

Congo
4,496 hectares
in 2023
Ecuador
4,810 hectares
in 2023
Congo rank
34th
Ecuador rank
31st

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Congo
  • Ecuador
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How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 4,810 hectares against 4,496 hectares in Congo, a difference of 313.81 hectares.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Ecuador ahead.

Congo ranks 34th and Ecuador ranks 31st 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.