Caribbean vs Northern Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- Caribbean
- Northern Africa
How they compare
Caribbean currently reports 15,754 1000 ha against 3,294 1000 ha in Northern Africa, a difference of 12,460 1000 ha.
That makes Caribbean's figure about 4.8 times Northern Africa's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Northern Africa ahead.
Caribbean ranks 22nd and Northern Africa ranks 24th of 26 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Caribbean averaged higher in 2 and Northern Africa in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Caribbean | Northern Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 14,937 1000 ha | 34,968 1000 ha | 20,031 1000 ha | Northern Africa |
| 2010s | 15,466 1000 ha | 9,798 1000 ha | 5,667 1000 ha | Caribbean |
| 2020s | 15,665 1000 ha | 3,266 1000 ha | 12,399 1000 ha | Caribbean |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, Caribbean or Northern Africa?
- Caribbean, at 15,754 1000 ha against 3,294 1000 ha in Northern Africa as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between Caribbean and Northern Africa?
- 12,460 1000 ha, with Caribbean ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Caribbean and Northern Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Caribbean and Northern Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- Caribbean ranks 22nd and Northern Africa ranks 24th of 26 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.