Australia and New Zealand vs South America: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

Australia and New Zealand
10,167 1000 ha
in 2022
South America
34,601 1000 ha
in 2022
Australia and New Zealand rank
3rd
South America rank
5th

Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded over time

  • Australia and New Zealand
  • South America
10.0k15.0k20.0k25.0k30.0k35.0k199220072022

How they compare

South America currently reports 34,601 1000 ha against 10,167 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 24,434 1000 ha.

That makes South America's figure about 3.4 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.

Australia and New Zealand ranks 3rd and South America ranks 5th of 224 countries.

South America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia and New Zealand South America Difference Ahead
1990s 10,127 1000 ha 32,573 1000 ha 22,446 1000 ha South America
2000s 10,106 1000 ha 34,222 1000 ha 24,116 1000 ha South America
2010s 10,142 1000 ha 34,668 1000 ha 24,526 1000 ha South America
2020s 10,159 1000 ha 34,600 1000 ha 24,440 1000 ha South America

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, Australia and New Zealand or South America?
South America, at 34,601 1000 ha against 10,167 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Australia and New Zealand and South America?
24,434 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and New Zealand and South America?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Australia and New Zealand and South America rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Australia and New Zealand ranks 3rd and South America ranks 5th of 224 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
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.