Canada vs South Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Canada
58,090 1000 ha
in 2022
South Africa
64,444 1000 ha
in 2022
Canada rank
8th
South Africa rank
7th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Canada
  • South Africa
020.0k40.0k60.0k199220072022

How they compare

South Africa currently reports 64,444 1000 ha against 58,090 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 6,354 1000 ha.

That makes South Africa's figure about 1.1 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 8th and South Africa ranks 7th of 224 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada South Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 52,561 1000 ha 64,138 1000 ha 11,577 1000 ha South Africa
2000s 53,207 1000 ha 64,507 1000 ha 11,300 1000 ha South Africa
2010s 55,641 1000 ha 64,559 1000 ha 8,919 1000 ha South Africa
2020s 57,857 1000 ha 64,450 1000 ha 6,593 1000 ha South Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Canada or South Africa?
South Africa, at 64,444 1000 ha against 58,090 1000 ha in Canada as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Canada and South Africa?
6,354 1000 ha, with South Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and South Africa?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Canada and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Canada ranks 8th and South Africa ranks 7th 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

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.