Guinea-Bissau vs Middle Africa: Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC

Guinea-Bissau
441.7 1000 ha
in 2022
Middle Africa
929.77 1000 ha
in 2022
Guinea-Bissau rank
13th
Middle Africa rank
3rd

Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Middle Africa
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How they compare

Middle Africa currently reports 929.77 1000 ha against 441.7 1000 ha in Guinea-Bissau, a difference of 488.07 1000 ha.

That makes Middle Africa's figure about 2.1 times Guinea-Bissau's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Middle Africa has been ahead every year.

Guinea-Bissau ranks 13th and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 224 countries.

Middle Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Guinea-Bissau Middle Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 477.72 1000 ha 892.58 1000 ha 414.86 1000 ha Middle Africa
2000s 469.69 1000 ha 898.2 1000 ha 428.51 1000 ha Middle Africa
2010s 451.05 1000 ha 924.57 1000 ha 473.51 1000 ha Middle Africa
2020s 437.51 1000 ha 930.52 1000 ha 493 1000 ha Middle Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mangroves — area from cci_lc, Guinea-Bissau or Middle Africa?
Middle Africa, at 929.77 1000 ha against 441.7 1000 ha in Guinea-Bissau as of 2022.
What is the difference in mangroves — area from cci_lc between Guinea-Bissau and Middle Africa?
488.07 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Guinea-Bissau and Middle Africa?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Guinea-Bissau and Middle Africa rank globally for mangroves — area from cci_lc?
Guinea-Bissau ranks 13th and Middle Africa ranks 3rd of 224 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

Indicator
Mangroves — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
Last refreshed

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.