Costa Rica vs Guatemala: Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC
Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
How they compare
Costa Rica currently reports 42.09 1000 ha against 36.21 1000 ha in Guatemala, a difference of 5.88 1000 ha.
That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.2 times Guatemala's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Costa Rica has been ahead every year.
Costa Rica ranks 45th and Guatemala ranks 48th of 219 countries.
Costa Rica has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Costa Rica | Guatemala | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 38.63 1000 ha | 33.07 1000 ha | 5.56 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
| 2000s | 41.37 1000 ha | 36.34 1000 ha | 5.03 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
| 2010s | 42.08 1000 ha | 36.78 1000 ha | 5.3 1000 ha | Costa Rica |
| 2020s | 42.09 1000 ha | 36.27 1000 ha | 5.82 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 Guatemala?
- Costa Rica, at 42.09 1000 ha against 36.21 1000 ha in Guatemala as of 2022.
- What is the difference in mangroves — area from cci_lc between Costa Rica and Guatemala?
- 5.88 1000 ha, with Costa Rica ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Costa Rica and Guatemala?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Costa Rica and Guatemala rank globally for mangroves — area from cci_lc?
- Costa Rica ranks 45th and Guatemala ranks 48th of 219 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.