Niger vs Western Asia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC

Niger
15,018 1000 ha
in 2022
Western Asia
22,333 1000 ha
in 2022
Niger rank
11th
Western Asia rank
11th

Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Niger
  • Western Asia
05.0k10.0k15.0k20.0k199220072022

How they compare

Western Asia currently reports 22,333 1000 ha against 15,018 1000 ha in Niger, a difference of 7,315 1000 ha.

That makes Western Asia's figure about 1.5 times Niger's.

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

Niger ranks 11th and Western Asia ranks 11th of 219 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Niger Western Asia Difference Ahead
1990s 12,544 1000 ha 21,428 1000 ha 8,884 1000 ha Western Asia
2000s 12,676 1000 ha 20,789 1000 ha 8,113 1000 ha Western Asia
2010s 13,546 1000 ha 20,559 1000 ha 7,013 1000 ha Western Asia
2020s 14,801 1000 ha 21,783 1000 ha 6,982 1000 ha Western Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, Niger or Western Asia?
Western Asia, at 22,333 1000 ha against 15,018 1000 ha in Niger as of 2022.
What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between Niger and Western Asia?
7,315 1000 ha, with Western Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Niger and Western Asia?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Niger and Western Asia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
Niger ranks 11th and Western Asia ranks 11th of 219 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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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.