Botswana vs Malawi: Imported deforestation

Botswana
1,243 hectares
in 2023
Malawi
1,384 hectares
in 2023
Botswana rank
130th
Malawi rank
127th

Imported deforestation over time

  • Botswana
  • Malawi
01.0k2.0k3.0k4.0k200520142023

How they compare

Malawi currently reports 1,384 hectares against 1,243 hectares in Botswana, a difference of 140.79 hectares.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 130th and Malawi ranks 127th of 178 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Imported deforestation
Unit
hectares
Source
Singh et al. (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
178 places, 3,320 data points, 2005–2023
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Imported deforestation is the amount of deforestation in other countries that is driven by the production of food and forestry products that are imported. This is measured in hectares.