China vs Middle Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- China
- Middle Africa
How they compare
Middle Africa currently reports 54,651 1000 ha against 23,500 1000 ha in China, a difference of 31,151 1000 ha.
That makes Middle Africa's figure about 2.3 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Middle Africa has been ahead every year.
China ranks 14th and Middle Africa ranks 10th of 219 countries.
Middle Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Middle Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 25,299 1000 ha | 57,990 1000 ha | 32,691 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2000s | 23,677 1000 ha | 56,080 1000 ha | 32,403 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2010s | 23,368 1000 ha | 54,741 1000 ha | 31,373 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2020s | 23,448 1000 ha | 54,589 1000 ha | 31,142 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, China or Middle Africa?
- Middle Africa, at 54,651 1000 ha against 23,500 1000 ha in China as of 2022.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between China and Middle Africa?
- 31,151 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Middle Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and Middle Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- China ranks 14th and Middle Africa ranks 10th of 219 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.