Ecuador vs Philippines: Drivers of deforestation

Ecuador
4,810 hectares
in 2023
Philippines
5,059 hectares
in 2023
Ecuador rank
31st
Philippines rank
30th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Ecuador
  • Philippines
05.0k10.0k15.0k200120122023

How they compare

Philippines currently reports 5,059 hectares against 4,810 hectares in Ecuador, a difference of 249.39 hectares.

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

The two have swapped places 7 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 31st and Philippines ranks 30th 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.