Americas vs South Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Americas
- South Africa
How they compare
Americas currently reports 309,564 1000 ha against 46,474 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 263,090 1000 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 6.7 times South Africa's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 5th and South Africa ranks 6th of 26 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 319,269 1000 ha | 48,292 1000 ha | 270,977 1000 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 313,368 1000 ha | 47,977 1000 ha | 265,391 1000 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 308,528 1000 ha | 45,241 1000 ha | 263,288 1000 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Americas or South Africa?
- Americas, at 309,564 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 Americas and South Africa?
- 263,090 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and South Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Americas and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Americas ranks 5th 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.