Australia and New Zealand vs South America: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Australia and New Zealand
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 837,192 1000 ha against 84,171 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 753,021 1000 ha.
That makes South America's figure about 9.9 times Australia and New Zealand's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th and South America ranks 5th of 224 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia and New Zealand | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 84,319 1000 ha | 876,545 1000 ha | 792,226 1000 ha | South America |
| 2000s | 83,463 1000 ha | 845,955 1000 ha | 762,492 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 83,322 1000 ha | 834,716 1000 ha | 751,394 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 84,190 1000 ha | 835,921 1000 ha | 751,731 1000 ha | South America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Australia and New Zealand or South America?
- South America, at 837,192 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 Australia and New Zealand and South America?
- 753,021 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and New Zealand and South America?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Australia and New Zealand and South America rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Australia and New Zealand ranks 7th and South America ranks 5th of 224 countries.
- 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.