Australia vs South America: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Australia
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 312,744 1000 ha against 179,257 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 133,487 1000 ha.
That makes South America's figure about 1.7 times Australia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 2nd and South America ranks 4th of 224 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 183,253 1000 ha | 305,919 1000 ha | 122,666 1000 ha | South America |
| 2000s | 179,633 1000 ha | 308,802 1000 ha | 129,168 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 179,349 1000 ha | 313,700 1000 ha | 134,351 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 179,236 1000 ha | 313,265 1000 ha | 134,029 1000 ha | South 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 South America?
- South America, at 312,744 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 South America?
- 133,487 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and South America?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Australia and South America rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Australia ranks 2nd and South America ranks 4th 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.