Eastern Asia vs Melanesia: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Eastern Asia
- Melanesia
How they compare
Eastern Asia currently reports 235,963 1000 ha against 45,155 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 190,808 1000 ha.
That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 5.2 times Melanesia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Eastern Asia has been ahead every year.
Eastern Asia ranks 9th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 26 groups.
Eastern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eastern Asia | Melanesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 235,295 1000 ha | 45,335 1000 ha | 189,960 1000 ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2000s | 232,895 1000 ha | 45,098 1000 ha | 187,797 1000 ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2010s | 233,192 1000 ha | 45,481 1000 ha | 187,712 1000 ha | Eastern Asia |
| 2020s | 235,638 1000 ha | 45,205 1000 ha | 190,433 1000 ha | Eastern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Eastern Asia or Melanesia?
- Eastern Asia, at 235,963 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 Eastern Asia and Melanesia?
- 190,808 1000 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eastern Asia and Melanesia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Eastern Asia and Melanesia rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Eastern Asia ranks 9th and Melanesia ranks 6th of 26 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.