China, mainland vs Northern Europe: Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS

China, mainland
8,109 1000 ha
in 2019
Northern Europe
2,430 1000 ha
in 2019
China, mainland rank
26th
Northern Europe rank
21st

Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS over time

  • China, mainland
  • Northern Europe
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How they compare

China, mainland currently reports 8,109 1000 ha against 2,430 1000 ha in Northern Europe, a difference of 5,679 1000 ha.

That makes China, mainland's figure about 3.3 times Northern Europe's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, China, mainland has been ahead every year.

China, mainland ranks 26th and Northern Europe ranks 21st of 198 countries.

China, mainland has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from cgls, China, mainland or Northern Europe?
China, mainland, at 8,109 1000 ha against 2,430 1000 ha in Northern Europe as of 2019.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from cgls between China, mainland and Northern Europe?
5,679 1000 ha, with China, mainland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for China, mainland and Northern Europe?
5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
How do China, mainland and Northern Europe rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from cgls?
China, mainland ranks 26th and Northern Europe ranks 21st of 198 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from CGLS. 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 CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
242 places, 1,210 data points, 2015–2019
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.