Sao Tome and Principe vs Saint Lucia: Mangroves — Area from MODIS

Sao Tome and Principe
2.93 1000 ha
in 2024
Saint Lucia
2.82 1000 ha
in 2024
Sao Tome and Principe rank
86th
Saint Lucia rank
87th

Mangroves — Area from MODIS over time

  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saint Lucia
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How they compare

Sao Tome and Principe currently reports 2.93 1000 ha against 2.82 1000 ha in Saint Lucia, a difference of 0.11 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Sao Tome and Principe ahead.

Sao Tome and Principe ranks 86th and Saint Lucia ranks 87th of 223 countries.

Sao Tome and Principe has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Sao Tome and Principe Saint Lucia Difference Ahead
2000s 4.02 1000 ha 2.81 1000 ha 1.21 1000 ha Sao Tome and Principe
2010s 3.45 1000 ha 2.9 1000 ha 0.549 1000 ha Sao Tome and Principe
2020s 3.07 1000 ha 2.77 1000 ha 0.298 1000 ha Sao Tome and Principe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher mangroves — area from modis, Sao Tome and Principe or Saint Lucia?
Sao Tome and Principe, at 2.93 1000 ha against 2.82 1000 ha in Saint Lucia as of 2024.
What is the difference in mangroves — area from modis between Sao Tome and Principe and Saint Lucia?
0.11 1000 ha, with Sao Tome and Principe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Sao Tome and Principe and Saint Lucia?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Sao Tome and Principe and Saint Lucia rank globally for mangroves — area from modis?
Sao Tome and Principe ranks 86th and Saint Lucia ranks 87th 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.