South Africa vs Southern Asia: Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC
Sparsely natural vegetated areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- South Africa
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 19,917 1000 ha against 9,135 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 10,782 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 2.2 times South Africa's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
South Africa ranks 15th and Southern Asia ranks 14th of 224 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | South Africa | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 9,366 1000 ha | 23,581 1000 ha | 14,216 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 9,249 1000 ha | 20,264 1000 ha | 11,015 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 9,166 1000 ha | 19,036 1000 ha | 9,870 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 9,131 1000 ha | 19,677 1000 ha | 10,546 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc, South Africa or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 19,917 1000 ha against 9,135 1000 ha in South Africa as of 2022.
- What is the difference in sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc between South Africa and Southern Asia?
- 10,782 1000 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for South Africa and Southern Asia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do South Africa and Southern Asia rank globally for sparsely natural vegetated areas — area from cci_lc?
- South Africa ranks 15th and Southern Asia ranks 14th 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.