Georgia vs Puerto Rico: Drivers of deforestation

Georgia
25.12 hectares
in 2023
Puerto Rico
36.39 hectares
in 2023
Georgia rank
104th
Puerto Rico rank
101st

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Georgia
  • Puerto Rico
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How they compare

Puerto Rico currently reports 36.39 hectares against 25.12 hectares in Georgia, a difference of 11.27 hectares.

That makes Puerto Rico's figure about 1.4 times Georgia's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 11 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Georgia ahead.

Georgia ranks 104th and Puerto Rico ranks 101st 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.