China vs Melanesia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- China
- Melanesia
How they compare
China currently reports 25,339 1000 ha against 548.93 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 24,790 1000 ha.
That makes China's figure about 46.2 times Melanesia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, China has been ahead every year.
China ranks 9th and Melanesia ranks 8th of 224 countries.
China has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 21,717 1000 ha | 488.88 1000 ha | 21,228 1000 ha | China |
| 2000s | 22,348 1000 ha | 534.65 1000 ha | 21,813 1000 ha | China |
| 2010s | 22,825 1000 ha | 542.81 1000 ha | 22,283 1000 ha | China |
| 2020s | 24,840 1000 ha | 547.71 1000 ha | 24,292 1000 ha | China |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, China or Melanesia?
- China, at 25,339 1000 ha against 548.93 1000 ha in Melanesia as of 2022.
- What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between China and Melanesia?
- 24,790 1000 ha, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Melanesia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and Melanesia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- China ranks 9th and Melanesia 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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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.