Asia vs Australia and New Zealand: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
How they compare
Asia currently reports 562,573 1000 ha against 84,171 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 478,402 1000 ha.
That makes Asia's figure about 6.7 times Australia and New Zealand's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Asia has been ahead every year.
Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th of 20 groups.
Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Asia | Australia and New Zealand | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 564,759 1000 ha | 84,319 1000 ha | 480,439 1000 ha | Asia |
| 2000s | 559,946 1000 ha | 83,463 1000 ha | 476,482 1000 ha | Asia |
| 2010s | 557,571 1000 ha | 83,322 1000 ha | 474,249 1000 ha | Asia |
| 2020s | 561,329 1000 ha | 84,190 1000 ha | 477,139 1000 ha | Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Asia or Australia and New Zealand?
- Asia, at 562,573 1000 ha against 84,171 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2022.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
- 478,402 1000 ha, with Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Asia and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th of 20 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.