Costa Rica vs Equatorial Guinea: Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC
Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Costa Rica
- Equatorial Guinea
How they compare
Costa Rica currently reports 42.09 1000 ha against 41 1000 ha in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 1.09 1000 ha.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Equatorial Guinea ahead.
Costa Rica ranks 50th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 51st of 241 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Costa Rica averaged higher in 3 and Equatorial Guinea in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Equatorial Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 38.63 1000 ha | 40.89 1000 ha | 2.26 1000 ha | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2000s | 41.37 1000 ha | 40.96 1000 ha | 0.408 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
| 2010s | 42.08 1000 ha | 41.17 1000 ha | 0.905 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
| 2020s | 42.09 1000 ha | 41.02 1000 ha | 1.07 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher mangroves — area from cci_lc, Costa Rica or Equatorial Guinea?
- Costa Rica, at 42.09 1000 ha against 41 1000 ha in Equatorial Guinea as of 2022.
- What is the difference in mangroves — area from cci_lc between Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea?
- 1.09 1000 ha, with Costa Rica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea rank globally for mangroves — area from cci_lc?
- Costa Rica ranks 50th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 51st of 241 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Mangroves — 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.