India vs Melanesia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

India
540.38 1000 ha
in 2022
Melanesia
548.93 1000 ha
in 2022
India rank
49th
Melanesia rank
48th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • India
  • Melanesia
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How they compare

Melanesia currently reports 548.93 1000 ha against 540.38 1000 ha in India, a difference of 8.55 1000 ha.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 31 shared years of data; in 1992 it was India ahead.

India ranks 49th and Melanesia ranks 48th of 241 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, India averaged higher in 1 and Melanesia in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade India Melanesia Difference Ahead
1990s 523.39 1000 ha 488.88 1000 ha 34.51 1000 ha India
2000s 524.77 1000 ha 534.65 1000 ha 9.87 1000 ha Melanesia
2010s 530.27 1000 ha 542.81 1000 ha 12.54 1000 ha Melanesia
2020s 540.73 1000 ha 547.71 1000 ha 6.98 1000 ha Melanesia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, India or Melanesia?
Melanesia, at 548.93 1000 ha against 540.38 1000 ha in India as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between India and Melanesia?
8.55 1000 ha, with Melanesia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for India and Melanesia?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do India and Melanesia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
India ranks 49th and Melanesia ranks 48th of 241 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

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.