Mexico vs Southern Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Mexico
44,624 1000 ha
in 2024
Southern Africa
115,045 1000 ha
in 2024
Mexico rank
7th
Southern Africa rank
5th

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Mexico
  • Southern Africa
40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k120.0k200120122024

How they compare

Southern Africa currently reports 115,045 1000 ha against 44,624 1000 ha in Mexico, a difference of 70,421 1000 ha.

That makes Southern Africa's figure about 2.6 times Mexico's.

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

Mexico ranks 7th and Southern Africa ranks 5th of 218 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Mexico Southern Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 41,831 1000 ha 112,847 1000 ha 71,016 1000 ha Southern Africa
2010s 42,232 1000 ha 115,559 1000 ha 73,327 1000 ha Southern Africa
2020s 43,198 1000 ha 114,142 1000 ha 70,945 1000 ha Southern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Mexico or Southern Africa?
Southern Africa, at 115,045 1000 ha against 44,624 1000 ha in Mexico as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Mexico and Southern Africa?
70,421 1000 ha, with Southern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mexico and Southern Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Mexico and Southern Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Mexico ranks 7th and Southern Africa ranks 5th of 218 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.