Brazil vs China, mainland: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Brazil
- China, mainland
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 597,725 1000 ha against 268,203 1000 ha in China, mainland, a difference of 329,522 1000 ha.
That makes Brazil's figure about 2.2 times China, mainland's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.
Brazil ranks 2nd and China, mainland ranks 5th of 240 countries.
Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | China, mainland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 618,236 1000 ha | 253,996 1000 ha | 364,240 1000 ha | Brazil |
| 2010s | 608,316 1000 ha | 262,295 1000 ha | 346,022 1000 ha | Brazil |
| 2020s | 596,434 1000 ha | 266,629 1000 ha | 329,806 1000 ha | Brazil |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Brazil or China, mainland?
- Brazil, at 597,725 1000 ha against 268,203 1000 ha in China, mainland as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Brazil and China, mainland?
- 329,522 1000 ha, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and China, mainland?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Brazil and China, mainland rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Brazil ranks 2nd and China, mainland ranks 5th 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.
Individual pages
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.