Portugal vs Puerto Rico: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

Portugal
16.13 1000 ha
in 2022
Puerto Rico
16.5 1000 ha
in 2022
Portugal rank
97th
Puerto Rico rank
96th

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

  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
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How they compare

Puerto Rico currently reports 16.5 1000 ha against 16.13 1000 ha in Portugal, a difference of 0.37 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Puerto Rico ahead.

Portugal ranks 97th and Puerto Rico ranks 96th of 224 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Portugal averaged higher in 2 and Puerto Rico in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Portugal Puerto Rico Difference Ahead
1990s 15.4 1000 ha 17.16 1000 ha 1.75 1000 ha Puerto Rico
2000s 15.98 1000 ha 15.85 1000 ha 0.13 1000 ha Portugal
2010s 16.01 1000 ha 15.8 1000 ha 0.211 1000 ha Portugal
2020s 16.01 1000 ha 16.48 1000 ha 0.4667 1000 ha Puerto Rico

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, Portugal or Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico, at 16.5 1000 ha against 16.13 1000 ha in Portugal as of 2022.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Portugal and Puerto Rico?
0.37 1000 ha, with Puerto Rico ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Portugal and Puerto Rico?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Portugal and Puerto Rico rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Portugal ranks 97th and Puerto Rico ranks 96th 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.