Papua New Guinea vs South America: Mangroves — Area from MODIS

Papua New Guinea
1,403 1000 ha
in 2024
South America
5,818 1000 ha
in 2024
Papua New Guinea rank
3rd
South America rank
4th

Mangroves — Area from MODIS over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • South America
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How they compare

South America currently reports 5,818 1000 ha against 1,403 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 4,415 1000 ha.

That makes South America's figure about 4.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.

Papua New Guinea ranks 3rd and South America ranks 4th of 223 countries.

South America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Papua New Guinea South America Difference Ahead
2000s 1,545 1000 ha 7,189 1000 ha 5,644 1000 ha South America
2010s 1,444 1000 ha 6,659 1000 ha 5,215 1000 ha South America
2020s 1,417 1000 ha 6,227 1000 ha 4,809 1000 ha South America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mangroves — area from modis, Papua New Guinea or South America?
South America, at 5,818 1000 ha against 1,403 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea as of 2024.
What is the difference in mangroves — area from modis between Papua New Guinea and South America?
4,415 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and South America?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Papua New Guinea and South America rank globally for mangroves — area from modis?
Papua New Guinea ranks 3rd and South America ranks 4th of 223 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Mangroves — Area from MODIS. 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 MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.