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Equatorial Guinea vs Japan: Drivers of deforestation

Equatorial Guinea
321.37 hectares
in 2023
Japan
276.54 hectares
in 2023
Equatorial Guinea rank
63rd
Japan rank
65th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Japan
0200400600200120122023

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 321.37 hectares against 276.54 hectares in Japan, a difference of 44.83 hectares.

That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 15 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 63rd and Japan ranks 65th 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.