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

Canada
436,843 1000 ha
in 2022
World
4.27 million 1000 ha
in 2022
Canada rank
3rd
World rank
1st

Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time

  • Canada
  • World
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How they compare

World currently reports 4.27 million 1000 ha against 436,843 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 3.83 million 1000 ha.

That makes World's figure about 9.8 times Canada's.

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

Canada ranks 3rd and World ranks 1st of 241 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Canada World Difference Ahead
1990s 439,950 1000 ha 4.33 million 1000 ha 3.89 million 1000 ha World
2000s 444,068 1000 ha 4.29 million 1000 ha 3.85 million 1000 ha World
2010s 441,555 1000 ha 4.28 million 1000 ha 3.83 million 1000 ha World
2020s 437,355 1000 ha 4.26 million 1000 ha 3.83 million 1000 ha World

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Canada or World?
World, at 4.27 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 Canada and World?
3.83 million 1000 ha, with World ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and World?
31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
How do Canada and World rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
Canada ranks 3rd and World ranks 1st of 241 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.