Asia vs Australia and New Zealand: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Asia
158,598 1000 ha
in 2022
Australia and New Zealand
181,702 1000 ha
in 2022
Asia rank
1st
Australia and New Zealand rank
1st

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Asia
  • Australia and New Zealand
050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k199220072022

How they compare

Australia and New Zealand currently reports 181,702 1000 ha against 158,598 1000 ha in Asia, a difference of 23,104 1000 ha.

That makes Australia and New Zealand's figure about 1.1 times Asia's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Australia and New Zealand has been ahead every year.

Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st of 20 groups.

Australia and New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Asia Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
1990s 161,179 1000 ha 185,582 1000 ha 24,403 1000 ha Australia and New Zealand
2000s 157,398 1000 ha 181,997 1000 ha 24,599 1000 ha Australia and New Zealand
2010s 157,776 1000 ha 181,769 1000 ha 23,992 1000 ha Australia and New Zealand
2020s 158,589 1000 ha 181,679 1000 ha 23,090 1000 ha Australia and New Zealand

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Asia or Australia and New Zealand?
Australia and New Zealand, at 181,702 1000 ha against 158,598 1000 ha in Asia as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
23,104 1000 ha, with Australia and New Zealand ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Asia and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st of 20 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.