Eastern Africa vs Sweden: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

Eastern Africa
15,227 1000 ha
in 2022
Sweden
3,692 1000 ha
in 2022
Eastern Africa rank
8th
Sweden rank
8th

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

  • Eastern Africa
  • Sweden
2.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k15.0k199220072022

How they compare

Eastern Africa currently reports 15,227 1000 ha against 3,692 1000 ha in Sweden, a difference of 11,535 1000 ha.

That makes Eastern Africa's figure about 4.1 times Sweden's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Eastern Africa has been ahead every year.

Eastern Africa ranks 8th and Sweden ranks 8th of 26 groups.

Eastern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Eastern Africa Sweden Difference Ahead
1990s 10,881 1000 ha 3,272 1000 ha 7,609 1000 ha Eastern Africa
2000s 11,426 1000 ha 3,313 1000 ha 8,114 1000 ha Eastern Africa
2010s 14,542 1000 ha 3,278 1000 ha 11,264 1000 ha Eastern Africa
2020s 15,222 1000 ha 3,654 1000 ha 11,568 1000 ha Eastern Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, Eastern Africa or Sweden?
Eastern Africa, at 15,227 1000 ha against 3,692 1000 ha in Sweden as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Eastern Africa and Sweden?
11,535 1000 ha, with Eastern Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Africa and Sweden?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Eastern Africa and Sweden rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Eastern Africa ranks 8th and Sweden ranks 8th of 26 groups.
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.