Australia vs Middle Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC

Australia
76,530 1000 ha
in 2022
Middle Africa
404,687 1000 ha
in 2022
Australia rank
9th
Middle Africa rank
6th

Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Australia
  • Middle Africa
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How they compare

Middle Africa currently reports 404,687 1000 ha against 76,530 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 328,157 1000 ha.

That makes Middle Africa's figure about 5.3 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 9th and Middle Africa ranks 6th of 219 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Middle Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 76,431 1000 ha 406,324 1000 ha 329,893 1000 ha Middle Africa
2000s 75,705 1000 ha 405,924 1000 ha 330,219 1000 ha Middle Africa
2010s 75,672 1000 ha 406,144 1000 ha 330,472 1000 ha Middle Africa
2020s 76,562 1000 ha 405,144 1000 ha 328,582 1000 ha Middle Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Australia or Middle Africa?
Middle Africa, at 404,687 1000 ha against 76,530 1000 ha in Australia as of 2022.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Australia and Middle Africa?
328,157 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Middle Africa?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Australia and Middle Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Australia ranks 9th and Middle Africa ranks 6th of 219 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

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.