Melanesia vs Western Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Melanesia
- Western Africa
How they compare
Western Africa currently reports 87,582 1000 ha against 45,155 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 42,427 1000 ha.
That makes Western Africa's figure about 1.9 times Melanesia's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Western Africa has been ahead every year.
Melanesia ranks 6th and Western Africa ranks 15th of 20 regions.
Western Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Western Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 45,335 1000 ha | 79,084 1000 ha | 33,749 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2000s | 45,098 1000 ha | 82,574 1000 ha | 37,477 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2010s | 45,481 1000 ha | 83,891 1000 ha | 38,410 1000 ha | Western Africa |
| 2020s | 45,205 1000 ha | 87,012 1000 ha | 41,807 1000 ha | Western Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Melanesia or Western Africa?
- Western Africa, at 87,582 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 Melanesia and Western Africa?
- 42,427 1000 ha, with Western Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Western Africa?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Melanesia and Western Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Melanesia ranks 6th and Western Africa ranks 15th 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.