Canada vs South America: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Canada
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 1.11 million 1000 ha against 501,610 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 603,400 1000 ha.
That makes South America's figure about 2.2 times Canada's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, South America has been ahead every year.
Canada ranks 3rd and South America ranks 4th of 240 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 483,965 1000 ha | 1.13 million 1000 ha | 648,573 1000 ha | South America |
| 2010s | 494,196 1000 ha | 1.12 million 1000 ha | 624,760 1000 ha | South America |
| 2020s | 499,077 1000 ha | 1.10 million 1000 ha | 603,389 1000 ha | South America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Canada or South America?
- South America, at 1.11 million 1000 ha against 501,610 1000 ha in Canada as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Canada and South America?
- 603,400 1000 ha, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and South America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Canada and South America rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Canada ranks 3rd and South America ranks 4th 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.