Japan vs Portugal: Drivers of deforestation

Japan
276.54 hectares
in 2023
Portugal
250.15 hectares
in 2023
Japan rank
65th
Portugal rank
66th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Japan
  • Portugal
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How they compare

Japan currently reports 276.54 hectares against 250.15 hectares in Portugal, a difference of 26.39 hectares.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 15 shared years of data; in 2004 it was Portugal ahead.

Japan ranks 65th and Portugal ranks 66th 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.