Costa Rica vs Rwanda: Imported deforestation

Costa Rica

2,303 hectares

in 2023

Rwanda

2,273 hectares

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

96th

Rwanda rank

97th

Imported deforestation over time

Costa Rica
Rwanda

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 2,303 hectares against 2,273 hectares in Rwanda, a difference of 29.83 hectares.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 96th and Rwanda ranks 97th of 178 countries.

Individual pages

Imported deforestation in Costa Rica
Imported deforestation in Rwanda
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.