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

Africa
6,213 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand
1,218 1000 ha
in 2024
Africa rank
8th
Australia and New Zealand rank
8th

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

  • Africa
  • Australia and New Zealand
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How they compare

Africa currently reports 6,213 1000 ha against 1,218 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 4,995 1000 ha.

That makes Africa's figure about 5.1 times Australia and New Zealand's.

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

Africa ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand ranks 8th of 26 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Africa Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
2000s 4,809 1000 ha 1,034 1000 ha 3,775 1000 ha Africa
2010s 5,281 1000 ha 1,039 1000 ha 4,241 1000 ha Africa
2020s 5,915 1000 ha 1,122 1000 ha 4,793 1000 ha 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, Africa or Australia and New Zealand?
Africa, at 6,213 1000 ha against 1,218 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Africa and Australia and New Zealand?
4,995 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and Australia and New Zealand?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Africa and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Africa ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand 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 MODIS. 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 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.