Jamaica vs Sudan: Drivers of deforestation

Jamaica
50.35 hectares
in 2023
Sudan
42.78 hectares
in 2023
Jamaica rank
97th
Sudan rank
100th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Jamaica
  • Sudan
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How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 50.35 hectares against 42.78 hectares in Sudan, a difference of 7.57 hectares.

That makes Jamaica's figure about 1.2 times Sudan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 12 shared years of data; in 2012 it was Jamaica ahead.

Jamaica ranks 97th and Sudan ranks 100th 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.