Lesotho vs Maldives: Drivers of deforestation

Lesotho
0.54 hectares
in 2020
Maldives
0.8 hectares
in 2023
Lesotho rank
146th
Maldives rank
143rd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Lesotho
  • Maldives
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How they compare

Maldives currently reports 0.8 hectares against 0.54 hectares in Lesotho, a difference of 0.26 hectares.

That makes Maldives's figure about 1.5 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 146th and Maldives ranks 143rd 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.