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Honduras vs Nicaragua: Drivers of deforestation

Honduras
10,116 hectares
in 2023
Nicaragua
9,373 hectares
in 2023
Honduras rank
23rd
Nicaragua rank
25th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
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How they compare

Honduras currently reports 10,116 hectares against 9,373 hectares in Nicaragua, a difference of 743.4 hectares.

That makes Honduras's figure about 1.1 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Honduras ahead.

Honduras ranks 23rd and Nicaragua ranks 25th 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.