Middle Africa vs South Africa: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Middle Africa
- South Africa
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 46,474 1000 ha against 3,285 1000 ha in Middle Africa, a difference of 43,189 1000 ha.
That makes South Africa's figure about 14.1 times Middle Africa's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, South Africa has been ahead every year.
Middle Africa ranks 5th and South Africa ranks 6th of 20 groups.
South Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Middle Africa | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5,432 1000 ha | 48,292 1000 ha | 42,861 1000 ha | South Africa |
| 2010s | 3,896 1000 ha | 47,977 1000 ha | 44,081 1000 ha | South Africa |
| 2020s | 3,756 1000 ha | 45,241 1000 ha | 41,485 1000 ha | South Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Middle Africa or South Africa?
- South Africa, at 46,474 1000 ha against 3,285 1000 ha in Middle Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Middle Africa and South Africa?
- 43,189 1000 ha, with South Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Middle Africa and South Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Middle Africa and South Africa rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
- Middle Africa ranks 5th and South Africa ranks 6th of 20 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.
Individual pages
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.