Madagascar vs Myanmar: Drivers of deforestation

Madagascar
28,080 hectares
in 2023
Myanmar
25,925 hectares
in 2023
Madagascar rank
10th
Myanmar rank
12th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Madagascar
  • Myanmar
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How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 28,080 hectares against 25,925 hectares in Myanmar, a difference of 2,155 hectares.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Myanmar's.

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

Madagascar ranks 10th and Myanmar ranks 12th 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.