China vs Middle Africa: Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS
Tree-covered areas — Area from MODIS over time
- China
- Middle Africa
How they compare
Middle Africa currently reports 449,391 1000 ha against 270,880 1000 ha in China, a difference of 178,511 1000 ha.
That makes Middle Africa's figure about 1.7 times China's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, Middle Africa has been ahead every year.
China ranks 4th and Middle Africa ranks 2nd of 223 countries.
Middle Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Middle Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 256,741 1000 ha | 453,422 1000 ha | 196,681 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2010s | 265,026 1000 ha | 453,200 1000 ha | 188,174 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
| 2020s | 269,313 1000 ha | 450,338 1000 ha | 181,024 1000 ha | Middle Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher tree-covered areas — area from modis, China or Middle Africa?
- Middle Africa, at 449,391 1000 ha against 270,880 1000 ha in China as of 2024.
- What is the difference in tree-covered areas — area from modis between China and Middle Africa?
- 178,511 1000 ha, with Middle Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Middle Africa?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do China and Middle Africa rank globally for tree-covered areas — area from modis?
- China ranks 4th 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
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.