Switzerland vs Vanuatu: Drivers of deforestation

Switzerland
7.93 hectares
in 2023
Vanuatu
9.69 hectares
in 2023
Switzerland rank
118th
Vanuatu rank
116th

Drivers of deforestation over time

  • Switzerland
  • Vanuatu
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How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 9.69 hectares against 7.93 hectares in Switzerland, a difference of 1.76 hectares.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.2 times Switzerland's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 5 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Switzerland ahead.

Switzerland ranks 118th and Vanuatu ranks 116th 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.