Lao People's Democratic Republic vs Polynesia: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

Lao People's Democratic Republic
63.85 1000 ha
in 2024
Polynesia
27.15 1000 ha
in 2024
Lao People's Democratic Republic rank
11th
Polynesia rank
13th

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

  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Polynesia
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How they compare

Lao People's Democratic Republic currently reports 63.85 1000 ha against 27.15 1000 ha in Polynesia, a difference of 36.7 1000 ha.

That makes Lao People's Democratic Republic's figure about 2.4 times Polynesia's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Lao People's Democratic Republic has been ahead every year.

Lao People's Democratic Republic ranks 11th and Polynesia ranks 13th of 20 countries.

Lao People's Democratic Republic has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Lao People's Democratic Republic Polynesia Difference Ahead
2000s 47.44 1000 ha 31.03 1000 ha 16.42 1000 ha Lao People's Democratic Republic
2010s 57.16 1000 ha 28.85 1000 ha 28.31 1000 ha Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020s 64.79 1000 ha 28.57 1000 ha 36.22 1000 ha Lao People's Democratic Republic

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, Lao People's Democratic Republic or Polynesia?
Lao People's Democratic Republic, at 63.85 1000 ha against 27.15 1000 ha in Polynesia as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Lao People's Democratic Republic and Polynesia?
36.7 1000 ha, with Lao People's Democratic Republic ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Lao People's Democratic Republic and Polynesia?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Lao People's Democratic Republic and Polynesia rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Lao People's Democratic Republic ranks 11th and Polynesia ranks 13th of 20 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.