Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Australia and New Zealand or Democratic Republic of the Congo?

Democratic Republic of the Congo, at 220,821 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 Australia and New Zealand and Democratic Republic of the Congo?

124,833 1000 ha, with Democratic Republic of the Congo ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and New Zealand and Democratic Republic of the Congo?

24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.

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.

Australia and New Zealand vs Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Australia and New Zealand

95,988 1000 ha

in 2024

Democratic Republic of the Congo

220,821 1000 ha

in 2024

Australia and New Zealand rank

8th

Democratic Republic of the Congo rank

3rd

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

Australia and New Zealand
Democratic Republic of the Congo

How they compare

Democratic Republic of the Congo currently reports 220,821 1000 ha against 95,988 1000 ha in Australia and New Zealand, a difference of 124,833 1000 ha.

That makes Democratic Republic of the Congo's figure about 2.3 times Australia and New Zealand's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Democratic Republic of the Congo has been ahead every year.

Australia and New Zealand ranks 8th and Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 3rd of 223 countries.

Democratic Republic of the Congo has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Australia and New Zealand	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Difference	Ahead
2000s	102,659 1000 ha	220,689 1000 ha	118,030 1000 ha	Democratic Republic of the Congo
2010s	111,048 1000 ha	221,292 1000 ha	110,244 1000 ha	Democratic Republic of the Congo
2020s	98,790 1000 ha	221,311 1000 ha	122,521 1000 ha	Democratic Republic of the Congo

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Australia and New Zealand or Democratic Republic of the Congo?: Democratic Republic of the Congo, at 220,821 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 Australia and New Zealand and Democratic Republic of the Congo?: 124,833 1000 ha, with Democratic Republic of the Congo ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and New Zealand and Democratic Republic of the Congo?: 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Australia and New Zealand and Democratic Republic of the Congo rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?: Australia and New Zealand ranks 8th and Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 3rd of 223 countries.
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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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: 12 August 2026

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.