Panama vs Sierra Leone: Drivers of deforestation

Panama
566.52 hectares
in 2023
Sierra Leone
751.37 hectares
in 2023
Panama rank
56th
Sierra Leone rank
54th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Panama
  • Sierra Leone
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How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 751.37 hectares against 566.52 hectares in Panama, a difference of 184.85 hectares.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.3 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 14 shared years of data; in 2009 it was Panama ahead.

Panama ranks 56th and Sierra Leone ranks 54th 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
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.