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Nicaragua vs Tanzania: Drivers of deforestation

Nicaragua
9,373 hectares
in 2023
Tanzania
11,494 hectares
in 2023
Nicaragua rank
25th
Tanzania rank
22nd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Nicaragua
  • Tanzania
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How they compare

Tanzania currently reports 11,494 hectares against 9,373 hectares in Nicaragua, a difference of 2,121 hectares.

That makes Tanzania's figure about 1.2 times Nicaragua's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 22 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Nicaragua ahead.

Nicaragua ranks 25th and Tanzania ranks 22nd 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.