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Papua New Guinea vs Philippines: Drivers of deforestation

Papua New Guinea
4,645 hectares
in 2023
Philippines
5,059 hectares
in 2023
Papua New Guinea rank
33rd
Philippines rank
30th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
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How they compare

Philippines currently reports 5,059 hectares against 4,645 hectares in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 413.85 hectares.

That makes Philippines's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Papua New Guinea ranks 33rd and Philippines ranks 30th 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.