Europe vs Greenland: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Europe
129,808 1000 ha
in 2022
Greenland
26,943 1000 ha
in 2022
Europe rank
5th
Greenland rank
8th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Europe
  • Greenland
25.0k50.0k75.0k100.0k125.0k150.0k199220072022

How they compare

Europe currently reports 129,808 1000 ha against 26,943 1000 ha in Greenland, a difference of 102,865 1000 ha.

That makes Europe's figure about 4.8 times Greenland's.

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

Europe ranks 5th and Greenland ranks 8th of 26 regions.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Europe Greenland Difference Ahead
1990s 137,631 1000 ha 26,943 1000 ha 110,688 1000 ha Europe
2000s 132,750 1000 ha 26,943 1000 ha 105,807 1000 ha Europe
2010s 130,079 1000 ha 26,943 1000 ha 103,136 1000 ha Europe
2020s 129,714 1000 ha 26,943 1000 ha 102,771 1000 ha Europe

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Europe or Greenland?
Europe, at 129,808 1000 ha against 26,943 1000 ha in Greenland as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Europe and Greenland?
102,865 1000 ha, with Europe ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Europe and Greenland?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Europe and Greenland rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Europe ranks 5th and Greenland ranks 8th of 26 regions.
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.