Africa vs China: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Africa
- China
How they compare
Africa currently reports 90,351 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China, a difference of 65,012 1000 ha.
That makes Africa's figure about 3.6 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 5th and China ranks 9th of 44 groups.
Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | China | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 80,830 1000 ha | 21,717 1000 ha | 59,113 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2000s | 80,352 1000 ha | 22,348 1000 ha | 58,004 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2010s | 82,234 1000 ha | 22,825 1000 ha | 59,409 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2020s | 88,925 1000 ha | 24,840 1000 ha | 64,085 1000 ha | Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Africa or China?
- Africa, at 90,351 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China as of 2022.
- What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Africa and China?
- 65,012 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and China?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Africa and China rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Africa ranks 5th and China ranks 9th of 44 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.