Paraguay vs Peru: Drivers of deforestation

Paraguay
48,613 hectares
in 2023
Peru
49,590 hectares
in 2023
Paraguay rank
5th
Peru rank
3rd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Paraguay
  • Peru
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How they compare

Peru currently reports 49,590 hectares against 48,613 hectares in Paraguay, a difference of 976.2 hectares.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Paraguay ahead.

Paraguay ranks 5th and Peru ranks 3rd 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.