From Works in Progress:

The authors of that study didn’t include any economic indicators in their work; they classified countries only according to how much forest they started out with and how their remaining forests were changing. To assess how countries’ stage in the forest transition connects to their stage of economic development, I compared2 their categorization to a country’s real GDP per capita in 2013. I found that, in 2013, all countries with a GDP per capita over $25,000 had reached a post-transition state, with the exceptions of Australia and Equatorial Guinea.3 From this data, at least, a...