Eastern Africa vs Saudi Arabia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Eastern Africa
- Saudi Arabia
How they compare
Saudi Arabia currently reports 8,340 1000 ha against 8,144 1000 ha in Eastern Africa, a difference of 196 1000 ha.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Eastern Africa ahead.
Eastern Africa ranks 18th and Saudi Arabia ranks 18th of 26 groups.
Eastern Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Africa | Saudi Arabia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7,616 1000 ha | 7,159 1000 ha | 456.39 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2000s | 7,352 1000 ha | 7,288 1000 ha | 64.15 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2010s | 7,534 1000 ha | 7,315 1000 ha | 218.12 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
| 2020s | 8,041 1000 ha | 7,990 1000 ha | 50.76 1000 ha | Eastern Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Eastern Africa or Saudi Arabia?
- Saudi Arabia, at 8,340 1000 ha against 8,144 1000 ha in Eastern Africa as of 2022.
- What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Eastern Africa and Saudi Arabia?
- 196 1000 ha, with Saudi Arabia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Africa and Saudi Arabia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Eastern Africa and Saudi Arabia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- Eastern Africa ranks 18th and Saudi Arabia ranks 18th of 26 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
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.