Northern Europe vs Norway: Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Northern Europe
7,593 1000 ha
in 2024
Norway
4,204 1000 ha
in 2024
Northern Europe rank
18th
Norway rank
21st

Shrub-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Northern Europe
  • Norway
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How they compare

Northern Europe currently reports 7,593 1000 ha against 4,204 1000 ha in Norway, a difference of 3,389 1000 ha.

That makes Northern Europe's figure about 1.8 times Norway's.

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

Northern Europe ranks 18th and Norway ranks 21st of 26 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Northern Europe Norway Difference Ahead
2000s 6,870 1000 ha 3,764 1000 ha 3,106 1000 ha Northern Europe
2010s 7,402 1000 ha 3,984 1000 ha 3,418 1000 ha Northern Europe
2020s 7,463 1000 ha 4,107 1000 ha 3,356 1000 ha Northern Europe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrub-covered areas — area from modis, Northern Europe or Norway?
Northern Europe, at 7,593 1000 ha against 4,204 1000 ha in Norway as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrub-covered areas — area from modis between Northern Europe and Norway?
3,389 1000 ha, with Northern Europe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Northern Europe and Norway?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Northern Europe and Norway rank globally for shrub-covered areas — area from modis?
Northern Europe ranks 18th and Norway ranks 21st 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

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.