China vs South America: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- China
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 75,874 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China, a difference of 50,535 1000 ha.
That makes South America's figure about 3.0 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
China ranks 9th and South America ranks 8th of 224 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 21,717 1000 ha | 73,305 1000 ha | 51,588 1000 ha | South America |
| 2000s | 22,348 1000 ha | 72,485 1000 ha | 50,137 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 22,825 1000 ha | 73,271 1000 ha | 50,445 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 24,840 1000 ha | 75,577 1000 ha | 50,737 1000 ha | South America |
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 South America?
- South America, at 75,874 1000 ha against 25,339 1000 ha in China as of 2022.
- What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between China and South America?
- 50,535 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and South America?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and South America rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- China ranks 9th 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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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.