Sweden vs Turkey: Drivers of deforestation

Sweden
68.77 hectares
in 2023
Turkey
65.15 hectares
in 2023
Sweden rank
90th
Turkey rank
92nd

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Sweden
  • Turkey
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 68.77 hectares against 65.15 hectares in Turkey, a difference of 3.62 hectares.

That makes Sweden's figure about 1.1 times Turkey's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 22 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Sweden ahead.

Sweden ranks 90th 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.