Melanesia vs Portugal: Grassland — Area from CCI_LC
Grassland — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Melanesia
- Portugal
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 1,180 1000 ha against 1,159 1000 ha in Portugal, a difference of 21 1000 ha.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Portugal ahead.
Melanesia ranks 92nd and Portugal ranks 93rd of 241 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Melanesia averaged higher in 3 and Portugal in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Portugal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,097 1000 ha | 1,083 1000 ha | 14.64 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 1,168 1000 ha | 1,126 1000 ha | 41.77 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 1,122 1000 ha | 1,162 1000 ha | 39.92 1000 ha | Portugal |
| 2020s | 1,171 1000 ha | 1,160 1000 ha | 10.35 1000 ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher grassland — area from cci_lc, Melanesia or Portugal?
- Melanesia, at 1,180 1000 ha against 1,159 1000 ha in Portugal as of 2022.
- What is the difference in grassland — area from cci_lc between Melanesia and Portugal?
- 21 1000 ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Portugal?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Melanesia and Portugal rank globally for grassland — area from cci_lc?
- Melanesia ranks 92nd and Portugal ranks 93rd of 241 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Grassland — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.