China vs Western Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- China
- Western Africa
How they compare
Western Africa currently reports 44,073 1000 ha against 23,500 1000 ha in China, a difference of 20,573 1000 ha.
That makes Western Africa's figure about 1.9 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Western Africa has been ahead every year.
China ranks 14th and Western Africa ranks 13th of 224 countries.
Western Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 25,299 1000 ha | 59,124 1000 ha | 33,825 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2000s | 23,677 1000 ha | 50,643 1000 ha | 26,966 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2010s | 23,368 1000 ha | 47,073 1000 ha | 23,705 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2020s | 23,448 1000 ha | 44,503 1000 ha | 21,056 1000 ha | Western 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 Western Africa?
- Western Africa, at 44,073 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 Western Africa?
- 20,573 1000 ha, with Western Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Western Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and Western Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- China ranks 14th and Western Africa ranks 13th 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.