Sri Lanka vs Turkey: Drivers of deforestation

Sri Lanka
58.41 hectares
in 2023
Turkey
65.15 hectares
in 2023
Sri Lanka rank
94th
Turkey rank
92nd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • Turkey
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How they compare

Turkey currently reports 65.15 hectares against 58.41 hectares in Sri Lanka, a difference of 6.74 hectares.

That makes Turkey's figure about 1.1 times Sri Lanka's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 94th and Turkey ranks 92nd 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.