Ireland vs Netherlands: Drivers of deforestation

Ireland
30.06 hectares
in 2017
Netherlands
22.12 hectares
in 2019
Ireland rank
103rd
Netherlands rank
105th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
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How they compare

Ireland currently reports 30.06 hectares against 22.12 hectares in Netherlands, a difference of 7.94 hectares.

That makes Ireland's figure about 1.4 times Netherlands's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 6 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Ireland ahead.

Ireland ranks 103rd and Netherlands ranks 105th of 166 regions.

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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.