Europe vs South Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Shrub-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Europe
- South Africa
How they compare
Europe currently reports 161,371 1000 ha against 64,444 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 96,927 1000 ha.
That makes Europe's figure about 2.5 times South Africa's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Europe has been ahead every year.
Europe ranks 9th and South Africa ranks 7th of 26 groups.
Europe has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Europe | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 143,516 1000 ha | 64,138 1000 ha | 79,378 1000 ha | Europe |
| 2000s | 147,522 1000 ha | 64,507 1000 ha | 83,015 1000 ha | Europe |
| 2010s | 152,818 1000 ha | 64,559 1000 ha | 88,258 1000 ha | Europe |
| 2020s | 160,872 1000 ha | 64,450 1000 ha | 96,422 1000 ha | Europe |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Europe or South Africa?
- Europe, at 161,371 1000 ha against 64,444 1000 ha in South Africa as of 2022.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Europe and South Africa?
- 96,927 1000 ha, with Europe ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and South Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Europe and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Europe ranks 9th and South Africa ranks 7th of 26 groups.
- 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.