China vs Melanesia: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- China
- Melanesia
How they compare
China currently reports 188,821 1000 ha against 45,155 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 143,666 1000 ha.
That makes China's figure about 4.2 times Melanesia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, China has been ahead every year.
China ranks 4th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 224 countries.
China has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 186,730 1000 ha | 45,335 1000 ha | 141,395 1000 ha | China |
| 2000s | 185,592 1000 ha | 45,098 1000 ha | 140,494 1000 ha | China |
| 2010s | 186,305 1000 ha | 45,481 1000 ha | 140,824 1000 ha | China |
| 2020s | 188,537 1000 ha | 45,205 1000 ha | 143,332 1000 ha | China |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, China or Melanesia?
- China, at 188,821 1000 ha against 45,155 1000 ha in Melanesia as of 2022.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between China and Melanesia?
- 143,666 1000 ha, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Melanesia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do China and Melanesia rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- China ranks 4th and Melanesia ranks 6th 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.