Asia vs Australia and New Zealand: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Asia
773,472 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand
95,988 1000 ha
in 2024
Asia rank
1st
Australia and New Zealand rank
8th

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Asia
  • Australia and New Zealand
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How they compare

Asia currently reports 773,472 1000 ha against 95,988 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 677,484 1000 ha.

That makes Asia's figure about 8.1 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Asia has been ahead every year.

Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 8th of 20 groups.

Asia has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Asia Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
2000s 751,110 1000 ha 102,659 1000 ha 648,451 1000 ha Asia
2010s 763,584 1000 ha 111,048 1000 ha 652,536 1000 ha Asia
2020s 768,626 1000 ha 98,790 1000 ha 669,836 1000 ha Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Asia or Australia and New Zealand?
Asia, at 773,472 1000 ha against 95,988 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
677,484 1000 ha, with Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Asia and Australia and New Zealand?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Asia and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Asia ranks 1st and Australia and New Zealand ranks 8th of 20 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

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.