Americas vs Canada: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Americas
1.68 million 1000 ha
in 2022
Canada
436,843 1000 ha
in 2022
Americas rank
2nd
Canada rank
3rd

Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Americas
  • Canada
500.0k1.0M1.5M199220072022

How they compare

Americas currently reports 1.68 million 1000 ha against 436,843 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 1.25 million 1000 ha.

That makes Americas's figure about 3.9 times Canada's.

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

Americas ranks 2nd and Canada ranks 3rd of 29 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Americas Canada Difference Ahead
1990s 1.73 million 1000 ha 439,950 1000 ha 1.29 million 1000 ha Americas
2000s 1.71 million 1000 ha 444,068 1000 ha 1.26 million 1000 ha Americas
2010s 1.69 million 1000 ha 441,555 1000 ha 1.25 million 1000 ha Americas
2020s 1.68 million 1000 ha 437,355 1000 ha 1.25 million 1000 ha Americas

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Americas or Canada?
Americas, at 1.68 million 1000 ha against 436,843 1000 ha in Canada as of 2022.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Americas and Canada?
1.25 million 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Canada?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Americas and Canada rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Americas ranks 2nd and Canada ranks 3rd 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

Indicator
Tree-covered 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.