Iceland vs Malta: Imported deforestation

Iceland
149.22 hectares
in 2023
Malta
92.61 hectares
in 2023
Iceland rank
154th
Malta rank
155th

Imported deforestation over time

  • Iceland
  • Malta
100200300400500600200520142023

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 149.22 hectares against 92.61 hectares in Malta, a difference of 56.61 hectares.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.6 times Malta's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 154th and Malta ranks 155th 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.