Canada vs South America: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Canada
106,875 1000 ha
in 2022
South America
75,874 1000 ha
in 2022
Canada rank
4th
South America rank
8th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Canada
  • South America
025.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k199220072022

How they compare

Canada currently reports 106,875 1000 ha against 75,874 1000 ha in South America, a difference of 31,001 1000 ha.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.4 times South America's.

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

Canada ranks 4th and South America ranks 8th of 224 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada South America Difference Ahead
1990s 109,800 1000 ha 73,305 1000 ha 36,496 1000 ha Canada
2000s 106,976 1000 ha 72,485 1000 ha 34,491 1000 ha Canada
2010s 106,673 1000 ha 73,271 1000 ha 33,403 1000 ha Canada
2020s 106,792 1000 ha 75,577 1000 ha 31,215 1000 ha Canada

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Canada or South America?
Canada, at 106,875 1000 ha against 75,874 1000 ha in South America as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Canada and South America?
31,001 1000 ha, with Canada ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and South America?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Canada and South America rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Canada ranks 4th and South America ranks 8th of 224 countries.
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.