Melanesia vs Southern Europe: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Melanesia
- Southern Europe
How they compare
Melanesia currently reports 45,155 1000 ha against 39,804 1000 ha in Southern Europe, a difference of 5,351 1000 ha.
That makes Melanesia's figure about 1.1 times Southern Europe's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Melanesia has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 6th and Southern Europe ranks 18th of 20 regions.
Melanesia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Southern Europe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45,335 1000 ha | 40,767 1000 ha | 4,568 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2000s | 45,098 1000 ha | 39,743 1000 ha | 5,355 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 45,481 1000 ha | 39,740 1000 ha | 5,740 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 45,205 1000 ha | 39,826 1000 ha | 5,379 1000 ha | Melanesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Melanesia or Southern Europe?
- Melanesia, at 45,155 1000 ha against 39,804 1000 ha in Southern Europe as of 2022.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Melanesia and Southern Europe?
- 5,351 1000 ha, with Melanesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Southern Europe?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Melanesia and Southern Europe rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Melanesia ranks 6th and Southern Europe ranks 18th of 20 regions.
- 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.