Tropical Moist Forest Deforestation

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: tropical-deforestation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Tropical Moist Forest Deforestation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	100	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	100	0
Deforested in the year (million hectares)deforestation_mhaHeadline	The headline figure: Tropical moist forest deforested in the year (million hectares).	Number · up to 13 decimals	0.0000003 share it0.707770Brazilmiddle 0.000803	98	0
Degraded in the year (million hectares)degradation_mhaMeasure	Area of tropical moist forest newly degraded in the year — logged, burned or thinned but still forest — in million hectares, whether or not it was later cleared.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.0000005 share it1.121710Brazilmiddle 0.001738	96	0
Regrowing forest (million hectares)regrowth_mhaMeasure	Area of previously cleared tropical moist forest growing back, in million hectares; it takes several years to detect, so the newest years read zero.	Number · whole numbers	0100 share it0100 share itmiddle 0	1	0
Undisturbed forest (million hectares)undisturbed_mhaMeasure	Area of tropical moist forest with no disturbance detected since 1990, at the end of the year, in million hectares.	Number · up to 13 decimals	0.000000Uruguay291.055921Brazilmiddle 0.435131	100	0
Degraded forest (million hectares)degraded_stock_mhaMeasure	Area of tropical moist forest that has been degraded but is still forest, at the end of the year, in million hectares.	Number · up to 13 decimals	0.000000Uruguay31.914145Brazilmiddle 0.246239	100	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 36 years.

Not in this dataset · 123 places this site covers

JRC gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBahrainBelarusBelgiumBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBulgariaCabo VerdeCanadaChannel IslandsChileCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDjiboutiEgyptEritreaEstoniaEswatiniFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGeorgiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIranIraqIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanJordanKazakhstanKiribatiKosovoKuwaitKyrgyzstanLatviaLebanonLesothoLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMoroccoNamibiaNauruNetherlandsNew ZealandNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPakistanPalauPalestinePolandPortugalQatarRomaniaRussiaSaint MartinSamoaSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSerbiaSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTongaTunisiaTürkiyeTurkmenistanTuvaluUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUzbekistanVatican CityYemenZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

   forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu

2. 2 · Their file

   Tropical Moist Forest Deforestation 2025 (JRC TMF, February2026 release)

   JRC_TMF_EvolutionChanges_1990_2025_vFebruary2026.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   36 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as tropical-deforestation-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/tropical-deforestation

From the Joint Research Centre’s own country statistics for its Tropical Moist Forest maps, in million hectares as published. Disputed areas the file lists on their own are not added to any country, and France’s overseas regions are left out.

• Charted

  Tropical Moist Forest Deforestation by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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