Papua New Guinea vs Uruguay: Shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded

Papua New Guinea
90.05 1000 ha
in 2024
Uruguay
100.75 1000 ha
in 2024
Papua New Guinea rank
64th
Uruguay rank
61st

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

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 100.75 1000 ha against 90.05 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 10.7 1000 ha.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Uruguay ahead.

Papua New Guinea ranks 64th and Uruguay ranks 61st of 223 countries.

Papua New Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Papua New Guinea Uruguay Difference Ahead
2000s 113.66 1000 ha 110.8 1000 ha 2.86 1000 ha Papua New Guinea
2010s 97.73 1000 ha 92.13 1000 ha 5.61 1000 ha Papua New Guinea
2020s 102.61 1000 ha 83.55 1000 ha 19.06 1000 ha Papua New Guinea

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded, Papua New Guinea or Uruguay?
Uruguay, at 100.75 1000 ha against 90.05 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea as of 2024.
What is the difference in shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded between Papua New Guinea and Uruguay?
10.7 1000 ha, with Uruguay ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Uruguay?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Papua New Guinea and Uruguay rank globally for shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded?
Papua New Guinea ranks 64th and Uruguay ranks 61st 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.