Congo vs Equatorial Guinea: Imported deforestation

Congo

1,729 hectares

in 2023

Equatorial Guinea

1,780 hectares

in 2023

Congo rank

113th

Equatorial Guinea rank

111th

Imported deforestation over time

Congo
Equatorial Guinea

How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 1,780 hectares against 1,729 hectares in Congo, a difference of 50.72 hectares.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Congo ahead.

Congo ranks 113th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 111th of 178 countries.

Individual pages

Imported deforestation in Congo
Imported deforestation in Equatorial Guinea
Full country ranking

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.