Australia vs Eastern Asia: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Australia
80,274 1000 ha
in 2024
Eastern Asia
321,501 1000 ha
in 2024
Australia rank
10th
Eastern Asia rank
12th

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Australia
  • Eastern Asia
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How they compare

Eastern Asia currently reports 321,501 1000 ha against 80,274 1000 ha in Australia, a difference of 241,227 1000 ha.

That makes Eastern Asia's figure about 4.0 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 10th and Eastern Asia ranks 12th of 240 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Eastern Asia Difference Ahead
2000s 86,719 1000 ha 305,438 1000 ha 218,718 1000 ha Eastern Asia
2010s 94,485 1000 ha 314,225 1000 ha 219,740 1000 ha Eastern Asia
2020s 82,900 1000 ha 318,799 1000 ha 235,899 1000 ha Eastern Asia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Australia or Eastern Asia?
Eastern Asia, at 321,501 1000 ha against 80,274 1000 ha in Australia as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Australia and Eastern Asia?
241,227 1000 ha, with Eastern Asia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Eastern Asia?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Australia and Eastern Asia rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Australia ranks 10th and Eastern Asia ranks 12th of 240 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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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.