Africa vs Australia: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Africa
- Australia
How they compare
Africa currently reports 449,879 1000 ha against 179,257 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 270,622 1000 ha.
That makes Africa's figure about 2.5 times Australia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 1st and Australia ranks 2nd of 44 regions.
Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | Australia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 479,514 1000 ha | 183,253 1000 ha | 296,261 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2000s | 464,622 1000 ha | 179,633 1000 ha | 284,988 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2010s | 456,092 1000 ha | 179,349 1000 ha | 276,743 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2020s | 450,693 1000 ha | 179,236 1000 ha | 271,457 1000 ha | Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Africa or Australia?
- Africa, at 449,879 1000 ha against 179,257 1000 ha in Australia as of 2022.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Africa and Australia?
- 270,622 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and Australia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Africa and Australia rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Africa ranks 1st and Australia ranks 2nd of 44 regions.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — 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.