Australia and New Zealand vs World: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Australia and New Zealand
431,580 1000 ha
in 2024
World
1.36 million 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand rank
1st
World rank
1st

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Australia and New Zealand
  • World
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How they compare

World currently reports 1.36 million 1000 ha against 431,580 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 924,330 1000 ha.

That makes World's figure about 3.1 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, World has been ahead every year.

Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st and World ranks 1st of 223 countries.

World has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia and New Zealand World Difference Ahead
2000s 442,952 1000 ha 1.39 million 1000 ha 949,793 1000 ha World
2010s 441,522 1000 ha 1.38 million 1000 ha 935,028 1000 ha World
2020s 442,673 1000 ha 1.37 million 1000 ha 929,577 1000 ha World

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Australia and New Zealand or World?
World, at 1.36 million 1000 ha against 431,580 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Australia and New Zealand and World?
924,330 1000 ha, with World ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and New Zealand and World?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Australia and New Zealand and World rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Australia and New Zealand ranks 1st and World ranks 1st of 223 countries.
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

Indicator
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.