Central Asia vs China (People’s Republic of): Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Central Asia
69,911 1000 ha
in 2022
China (People’s Republic of)
25,339 1000 ha
in 2022
Central Asia rank
7th
China (People’s Republic of) rank
9th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Central Asia
  • China (People’s Republic of)
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How they compare

Central Asia currently reports 69,911 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China (People’s Republic of), a difference of 44,572 1000 ha.

That makes Central Asia's figure about 2.8 times China (People’s Republic of)'s.

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

Central Asia ranks 7th and China (People’s Republic of) ranks 9th of 44 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Central Asia China (People’s Republic of) Difference Ahead
1990s 72,472 1000 ha 21,717 1000 ha 50,754 1000 ha Central Asia
2000s 68,027 1000 ha 22,348 1000 ha 45,679 1000 ha Central Asia
2010s 69,201 1000 ha 22,825 1000 ha 46,375 1000 ha Central Asia
2020s 69,648 1000 ha 24,840 1000 ha 44,808 1000 ha Central Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Central Asia or China (People’s Republic of)?
Central Asia, at 69,911 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China (People’s Republic of) as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Central Asia and China (People’s Republic of)?
44,572 1000 ha, with Central Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Central Asia and China (People’s Republic of)?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Central Asia and China (People’s Republic of) rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Central Asia ranks 7th and China (People’s Republic of) 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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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.