Africa vs Brazil: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Africa
449,879 1000 ha
in 2022
Brazil
146,572 1000 ha
in 2022
Africa rank
1st
Brazil rank
3rd

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Africa
  • Brazil
100.0k200.0k300.0k400.0k500.0k199220072022

How they compare

Africa currently reports 449,879 1000 ha against 146,572 1000 ha in Brazil, a difference of 303,307 1000 ha.

That makes Africa's figure about 3.1 times Brazil's.

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

Africa ranks 1st and Brazil ranks 3rd of 44 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Africa Brazil Difference Ahead
1990s 479,514 1000 ha 147,859 1000 ha 331,655 1000 ha Africa
2000s 464,622 1000 ha 147,827 1000 ha 316,794 1000 ha Africa
2010s 456,092 1000 ha 148,631 1000 ha 307,461 1000 ha Africa
2020s 450,693 1000 ha 147,195 1000 ha 303,498 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 Brazil?
Africa, at 449,879 1000 ha against 146,572 1000 ha in Brazil as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Africa and Brazil?
303,307 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and Brazil?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Africa and Brazil rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Africa ranks 1st and Brazil ranks 3rd of 44 groups.
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

Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — 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.