Ethiopia vs Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Ethiopia
48,006 1000 ha
in 2022
Southern Africa
127,763 1000 ha
in 2022
Ethiopia rank
9th
Southern Africa rank
11th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Southern Africa
050.0k100.0k150.0k199220072022

How they compare

Southern Africa currently reports 127,763 1000 ha against 48,006 1000 ha in Ethiopia, a difference of 79,757 1000 ha.

That makes Southern Africa's figure about 2.7 times Ethiopia's.

Across all 30 years both countries report, Southern Africa has been ahead every year.

Ethiopia ranks 9th 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 Ethiopia Southern Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 50,410 1000 ha 128,273 1000 ha 77,863 1000 ha Southern Africa
2000s 49,466 1000 ha 128,445 1000 ha 78,979 1000 ha Southern Africa
2010s 49,014 1000 ha 128,216 1000 ha 79,203 1000 ha Southern Africa
2020s 48,134 1000 ha 127,857 1000 ha 79,724 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, Ethiopia or Southern Africa?
Southern Africa, at 127,763 1000 ha against 48,006 1000 ha in Ethiopia as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Ethiopia and Southern Africa?
79,757 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Ethiopia and Southern Africa?
30 years are reported by both, from 1993 to 2022.
How do Ethiopia and Southern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Ethiopia ranks 9th 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

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.