The needs of soy farmers have been used to justify many of the controversial transportation projects that are currently developing in the Amazon. The first two highways successfully opened up the rainforest and led to increased settlement and deforestation. The mean annual deforestation rate from 2000 to 2005 (22,392 km2 or 8,646 sq mi per year) was 18% higher than in the previous five years (19,018 km2 or 7,343 sq mi per year). Although deforestation has declined significantly in the Brazilian Amazon between 2004 and 2014, there has been an increase to the present day.
How much higher was the rate of deforestation in 2000, to 2005 compared to 1995 to 2000?
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The mean annual deforestation rate from 2000 to 2005 (22,392 km2 or 8,646 sq mi per year) was 18% higher than in the previous five years (19,018 km2 or 7,343 sq mi per year).
The mean annual deforestation rate from two thousand to two thousand five (twenty-two thousand, three hundred ninety-two kmtwo or eight thousand, six hundred forty-six sq mi per year) was eighteen percent higher than in the previous five years (nineteen thousand eighteen kmtwo or seven thousand, three hundred forty-three sq mi per year).
How much higher was the rate of deforestation in two thousand, to two thousand five compared to nineteen ninety-five to two thousand?