Gambia vs Syria: Drivers of deforestation

Gambia
0.33 hectares
in 2023
Syria
0.21 hectares
in 2023
Gambia rank
149th
Syria rank
150th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Gambia
  • Syria
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How they compare

Gambia currently reports 0.33 hectares against 0.21 hectares in Syria, a difference of 0.12 hectares.

That makes Gambia's figure about 1.6 times Syria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2013 it was Gambia ahead.

Gambia ranks 149th and Syria ranks 150th 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.