Papua New Guinea vs Southern Asia: Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC
Tree-covered areas — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Papua New Guinea
- Southern Asia
How they compare
Southern Asia currently reports 70,200 1000 ha against 39,084 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 31,116 1000 ha.
That makes Southern Asia's figure about 1.8 times Papua New Guinea's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Southern Asia has been ahead every year.
Papua New Guinea ranks 17th and Southern Asia ranks 17th of 224 countries.
Southern Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Papua New Guinea | Southern Asia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 39,446 1000 ha | 68,282 1000 ha | 28,837 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2000s | 39,073 1000 ha | 67,771 1000 ha | 28,699 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2010s | 39,358 1000 ha | 68,281 1000 ha | 28,923 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
| 2020s | 39,129 1000 ha | 69,716 1000 ha | 30,587 1000 ha | Southern Asia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc, Papua New Guinea or Southern Asia?
- Southern Asia, at 70,200 1000 ha against 39,084 1000 ha in Papua New Guinea as of 2022.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc between Papua New Guinea and Southern Asia?
- 31,116 1000 ha, with Southern Asia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and Southern Asia?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Papua New Guinea and Southern Asia rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from cci_lc?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 17th and Southern Asia ranks 17th 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.