French Polynesia vs Turks and Caicos Islands: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

French Polynesia
14.2 1000 ha
in 2024
Turks and Caicos Islands
14.58 1000 ha
in 2024
French Polynesia rank
111th
Turks and Caicos Islands rank
110th

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

  • French Polynesia
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
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How they compare

Turks and Caicos Islands currently reports 14.58 1000 ha against 14.2 1000 ha in French Polynesia, a difference of 0.38 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was French Polynesia ahead.

French Polynesia ranks 111th and Turks and Caicos Islands ranks 110th of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade French Polynesia Turks and Caicos Islands Difference Ahead
2000s 12.62 1000 ha 12.12 1000 ha 0.4911 1000 ha French Polynesia
2010s 13.96 1000 ha 12.67 1000 ha 1.29 1000 ha French Polynesia
2020s 15.24 1000 ha 14.2 1000 ha 1.04 1000 ha French Polynesia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, French Polynesia or Turks and Caicos Islands?
Turks and Caicos Islands, at 14.58 1000 ha against 14.2 1000 ha in French Polynesia as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between French Polynesia and Turks and Caicos Islands?
0.38 1000 ha, with Turks and Caicos Islands ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for French Polynesia and Turks and Caicos Islands?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do French Polynesia and Turks and Caicos Islands rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
French Polynesia ranks 111th and Turks and Caicos Islands ranks 110th of 223 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 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.