Botswana vs Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Botswana
- Southern Africa
How they compare
Southern Africa currently reports 127,763 1000 ha against 44,738 1000 ha in Botswana, a difference of 83,025 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Africa's figure about 2.9 times Botswana's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Africa has been ahead every year.
Botswana ranks 11th and Southern Africa ranks 11th of 224 countries.
Southern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Botswana | Southern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45,422 1000 ha | 128,266 1000 ha | 82,844 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2000s | 45,261 1000 ha | 128,445 1000 ha | 83,184 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2010s | 45,017 1000 ha | 128,216 1000 ha | 83,199 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
| 2020s | 44,799 1000 ha | 127,857 1000 ha | 83,058 1000 ha | Southern Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Botswana or Southern Africa?
- Southern Africa, at 127,763 1000 ha against 44,738 1000 ha in Botswana as of 2022.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Botswana and Southern Africa?
- 83,025 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Botswana and Southern Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Botswana and Southern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Botswana ranks 11th and Southern Africa ranks 11th 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.