Africa vs Niger: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Africa
90,351 1000 ha
in 2022
Niger
15,018 1000 ha
in 2022
Africa rank
5th
Niger rank
11th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Africa
  • Niger
20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k100.0k199220072022

How they compare

Africa currently reports 90,351 1000 ha against 15,018 1000 ha in Niger, a difference of 75,333 1000 ha.

That makes Africa's figure about 6.0 times Niger's.

Across all 31 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.

Africa ranks 5th and Niger ranks 11th of 44 regions.

Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Africa Niger Difference Ahead
1990s 80,830 1000 ha 12,544 1000 ha 68,286 1000 ha Africa
2000s 80,352 1000 ha 12,676 1000 ha 67,676 1000 ha Africa
2010s 82,234 1000 ha 13,546 1000 ha 68,688 1000 ha Africa
2020s 88,925 1000 ha 14,801 1000 ha 74,124 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 Niger?
Africa, at 90,351 1000 ha against 15,018 1000 ha in Niger as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Africa and Niger?
75,333 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and Niger?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Africa and Niger rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Africa ranks 5th and Niger ranks 11th of 44 regions.
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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Indicator
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
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.