Cameroon vs South Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Cameroon
- South Africa
How they compare
Cameroon currently reports 37,924 1000 ha against 9,409 1000 ha in South Africa, a difference of 28,515 1000 ha.
That makes Cameroon's figure about 4.0 times South Africa's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Cameroon has been ahead every year.
Cameroon ranks 24th and South Africa ranks 25th of 240 countries.
Cameroon has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cameroon | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 37,914 1000 ha | 7,885 1000 ha | 30,028 1000 ha | Cameroon |
| 2010s | 38,111 1000 ha | 8,470 1000 ha | 29,641 1000 ha | Cameroon |
| 2020s | 37,917 1000 ha | 8,839 1000 ha | 29,078 1000 ha | Cameroon |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Cameroon or South Africa?
- Cameroon, at 37,924 1000 ha against 9,409 1000 ha in South Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Cameroon and South Africa?
- 28,515 1000 ha, with Cameroon ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and South Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Cameroon and South Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Cameroon ranks 24th and South Africa ranks 25th 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
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.