Africa vs China: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Africa
- China
How they compare
Africa currently reports 757,448 1000 ha against 188,821 1000 ha in China, a difference of 568,627 1000 ha.
That makes Africa's figure about 4.0 times China's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Africa has been ahead every year.
Africa ranks 6th and China ranks 4th of 29 groups.
Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Africa | China | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 745,066 1000 ha | 186,730 1000 ha | 558,337 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2000s | 744,832 1000 ha | 185,592 1000 ha | 559,240 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2010s | 750,092 1000 ha | 186,305 1000 ha | 563,787 1000 ha | Africa |
| 2020s | 756,594 1000 ha | 188,537 1000 ha | 568,057 1000 ha | Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Africa or China?
- Africa, at 757,448 1000 ha against 188,821 1000 ha in China as of 2022.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Africa and China?
- 568,627 1000 ha, with Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Africa and China?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Africa and China rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Africa ranks 6th and China ranks 4th of 29 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tree-covered 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.