Nepal vs Suriname: Drivers of deforestation

Nepal
544.22 hectares
in 2023
Suriname
437.05 hectares
in 2023
Nepal rank
58th
Suriname rank
60th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Nepal
  • Suriname
01.0k2.0k3.0k200120122023

How they compare

Nepal currently reports 544.22 hectares against 437.05 hectares in Suriname, a difference of 107.17 hectares.

That makes Nepal's figure about 1.2 times Suriname's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 13 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Nepal ahead.

Nepal ranks 58th and Suriname ranks 60th of 166 countries.

Individual pages

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
Last refreshed

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.