Bangladesh vs Portugal: Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre

Bangladesh
0.057 ha per square kilometre
in 2023
Portugal
0.0628 ha per square kilometre
in 2023
Bangladesh rank
36th
Portugal rank
34th

Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre over time

  • Bangladesh
  • Portugal
00.250.50.751199020062023

How they compare

Portugal currently reports 0.0628 ha per square kilometre against 0.057 ha per square kilometre in Bangladesh, a difference of 0.0058 ha per square kilometre.

That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Bangladesh's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Portugal ahead.

Bangladesh ranks 36th and Portugal ranks 34th of 186 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Bangladesh averaged higher in 1 and Portugal in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bangladesh Portugal Difference Ahead
1990s 0.1048 ha per square kilometre 0.1613 ha per square kilometre 0.0565 ha per square kilometre Portugal
2000s 0.168 ha per square kilometre 0.1765 ha per square kilometre 0.0085 ha per square kilometre Portugal
2010s 0.1048 ha per square kilometre 0.1806 ha per square kilometre 0.0758 ha per square kilometre Portugal
2020s 0.1728 ha per square kilometre 0.0989 ha per square kilometre 0.074 ha per square kilometre Bangladesh

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher forest fires — burned area, per square kilometre, Bangladesh or Portugal?
Portugal, at 0.0628 ha per square kilometre against 0.057 ha per square kilometre in Bangladesh as of 2023.
What is the difference in forest fires — burned area, per square kilometre between Bangladesh and Portugal?
0.0058 ha per square kilometre, with Portugal ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bangladesh and Portugal?
34 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2023.
How do Bangladesh and Portugal rank globally for forest fires — burned area, per square kilometre?
Bangladesh ranks 36th and Portugal ranks 34th of 186 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Statizoid (derived), published as Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Bangladesh vs Portugal: Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 11 October 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/forest-fires-burned-area-per-square-kilometre/bangladesh/portugal/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/forest-fires-burned-area-per-square-kilometre/bangladesh/portugal/">Bangladesh vs Portugal: Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Forest fires — Burned Area, per square kilometre
Unit
ha per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
188 places, 6,245 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed

Forest fires — Burned Area divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.