Africa vs South Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Africa
- South Africa
How they compare
Africa currently reports 188,539 1000 ha against 46,474 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 142,065 1000 ha.
That makes Africa's figure about 4.1 times South Africa's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 6th and South Africa ranks 6th of 26 groups.
Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 201,692 1000 ha | 48,292 1000 ha | 153,400 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2010s | 197,487 1000 ha | 47,977 1000 ha | 149,510 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2020s | 192,632 1000 ha | 45,241 1000 ha | 147,392 1000 ha | Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Africa or South Africa?
- Africa, at 188,539 1000 ha against 46,474 1000 ha in South Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Africa and South Africa?
- 142,065 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and South Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Africa and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Africa ranks 6th and South Africa ranks 6th of 26 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS. 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.