Brazil vs Middle Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS

Brazil
597,725 1000 ha
in 2024
Middle Africa
449,391 1000 ha
in 2024
Brazil rank
2nd
Middle Africa rank
2nd

Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time

  • Brazil
  • Middle Africa
0200.0k400.0k600.0k200120122024

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 597,725 1000 ha against 449,391 1000 ha in Middle Africa, a difference of 148,334 1000 ha.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.3 times Middle Africa's.

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

Brazil ranks 2nd and Middle Africa ranks 2nd of 223 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Brazil Middle Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 618,236 1000 ha 453,422 1000 ha 164,814 1000 ha Brazil
2010s 608,316 1000 ha 453,200 1000 ha 155,116 1000 ha Brazil
2020s 596,434 1000 ha 450,338 1000 ha 146,097 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 Middle Africa?
Brazil, at 597,725 1000 ha against 449,391 1000 ha in Middle Africa as of 2024.
What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Brazil and Middle Africa?
148,334 1000 ha, with Brazil ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Middle Africa?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Brazil and Middle Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
Brazil ranks 2nd and Middle Africa ranks 2nd 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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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.