Gabon vs India: Drivers of deforestation

Gabon
1,992 hectares
in 2023
India
2,099 hectares
in 2023
Gabon rank
45th
India rank
44th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Gabon
  • India
050.0k100.0k150.0k200120122023

How they compare

India currently reports 2,099 hectares against 1,992 hectares in Gabon, a difference of 107.4 hectares.

That makes India's figure about 1.1 times Gabon's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 22 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Gabon ahead.

Gabon ranks 45th and India ranks 44th 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.