Australia vs Northern America: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Australia
- Northern America
How they compare
Northern America currently reports 259,773 1000 ha against 179,257 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 80,516 1000 ha.
That makes Northern America's figure about 1.4 times Australia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Northern America has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 2nd and Northern America ranks 5th of 224 countries.
Northern America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Northern America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 183,253 1000 ha | 255,373 1000 ha | 72,120 1000 ha | Northern America |
| 2000s | 179,633 1000 ha | 253,959 1000 ha | 74,325 1000 ha | Northern America |
| 2010s | 179,349 1000 ha | 256,955 1000 ha | 77,606 1000 ha | Northern America |
| 2020s | 179,236 1000 ha | 259,826 1000 ha | 80,590 1000 ha | Northern America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Australia or Northern America?
- Northern America, at 259,773 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 Australia and Northern America?
- 80,516 1000 ha, with Northern America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Northern America?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Australia and Northern America rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Australia ranks 2nd and Northern America ranks 5th of 224 countries.
- 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.