Americas vs Australia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Americas
229,205 1000 ha
in 2022
Australia
272,770 1000 ha
in 2022
Americas rank
3rd
Australia rank
2nd

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Americas
  • Australia
0100.0k200.0k300.0k199220072022

How they compare

Australia currently reports 272,770 1000 ha against 229,205 1000 ha in Americas, a difference of 43,565 1000 ha.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.2 times Americas's.

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

Americas ranks 3rd and Australia ranks 2nd of 29 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas Australia Difference Ahead
1990s 228,765 1000 ha 279,004 1000 ha 50,238 1000 ha Australia
2000s 225,553 1000 ha 280,629 1000 ha 55,076 1000 ha Australia
2010s 226,311 1000 ha 280,457 1000 ha 54,146 1000 ha Australia
2020s 228,809 1000 ha 272,092 1000 ha 43,283 1000 ha Australia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Americas or Australia?
Australia, at 272,770 1000 ha against 229,205 1000 ha in Americas as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Americas and Australia?
43,565 1000 ha, with Australia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Australia?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Americas and Australia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Americas ranks 3rd and Australia ranks 2nd of 29 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

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.